I contend that if we go our own way, that they will come and take it back by any means necessary.
The only solution is a complete cleansing of all government and a reset.
A government “cleansing” and “reset” would be just as difficult as a state leaving the union and fighting to stay gone.
This isn't 1861. Americans of today don't have the stomach to murder millions of their fellow citizens over a purely political question of union.
Secession by one or more red states would provoke an awful lot of things, but it wouldn't include military aggression. Not in this day and age, and not by the cowardly left, who openly grovel to anyone who truly means 'business'.