Either way it is a disaster for the rest of the country. And what to be done about it?
I have 100% given up on the resurrection of the United States as a whole. That dodo bird is dead, and she ain’t flying again. Even with no other outside push, (and many are lined up), she’s going down when the petrodollar dies.
The rest of the world is unassing the doomed petrodollar ASAP. For example, in a world-record feat of anti-diplomacy, the US State Dept. has made both Iran and the Saudis seek BRICs membership, enemies allied in their desire to dump their petrodollar dependence.
The only “less bad” solution is for conservatives to move en-masse to red states, and make them deeper red, leaving blue states bluer, full only of welfare parasites. Then the red states need to prepare to ride out the total collapse of the feral US govt, and try to rebuild fresh on the other side, as free states, and not merely as vassals of Washington DC.
Clearly, one thing that has to happen, if and when elections again become possible (and are seen as beneficial), is that the insane idea of universal suffrage has to be scrapped. Voting rights will have to go back to only those with skin in the game: land owners, net taxpayers, military combat veterans (not LaQuisha from supply), etc.
History will look back at 21st Century America’s experiment with universal suffrage as sheer insanity. What did we expect when we: 1. Encouraged welfare parasites to breed like rats, in order to 2. harvest their votes on urban welfare plantations, and 3. by promising and delivering more and more welfare benefits, paid for from thin-air funny money?
Our future: Argentina with nukes. At best.