“United we stand, divided we fall.”
We are not, nor will we ever be united in the way we were when I was growing up. The public school system is actively breeding citizens who hate their own country.
In the case of a split, it’s possible that a well run fraction of this country could survive. As of right now, this country won’t survive. The best that can be hoped for right now is a sort of Great Brittan type of irrelevance.
I get all that and completely agree. But I think of it as a prize fight. We may be losing the “unity” points in the fight, but if succession actually happens, forget points. That is the TKO moment China, et al are waiting for.