I like the modern precedent, but I don't expect civil war even after half or more of the states either secede or throw out the socialist states. Dear Leader is a bully, not a fighter, and he doesn't have what it takes to fight anyone whose arms aren't being held. Obama would rather be Community-Organizer-for-Life in a smaller country than President of the 50 or 57 United States for a mere four years; as his fictional counterpart said, in Milton's Paradise Lost, "it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven". He'll let us go peacefully, and I hope all sides will work hard to keep it peaceful.
Milton’s Paradise Lost, “it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven”. NO- “What shall it profit a man to gain the world, yet loose his sould”- Matt 16. That’s dangerous thinking!