“We don’t need to break up the union. We need to revitalize a robust operation of the Tenth Amendment, with the federal government actually being limited to its enumerated powers and with the entire house of cards of wealth transfer payments at the federal level mostly ground to a halt.”
Excellent point. Was talking with an Aussie economist friend about the EU. As I was lamenting the efforts by Brussels to regulate everything and redistribute, he said that quite simply, the point was to be a MONETARY UNION, as that helps to prevent wars.
If you think about it, the US was a similar construct, with very limited Federal powers which were designed to keep each state from fighting with each other or screwing their neighbor on trade.
US 2.0, sticking with the original founding documents as amended with some clarifications on the 14th, per Rand Paul, and omission of the 17th.
I note that Belgium just began to voice real separatism at the ballot box itself.
I think the breakdown of a country along ethnic lines is usually a futile enterprise (it almost never seems to accomplish what the parties hoped for). But the philosophical divide between Statism and Freedom is so great, it seems that at some point separation — whether physical (by boundaries) or philosophical — MUST be pursued by whatever means become necessary.