as long as the rank and filers in the seceding states have their TV set on ... it ain’t gettin’ off of the launch pad.
It's all a matter of pain. When the pain exceeds the public's threshold of endurance, the dam will break.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~ Thomas Jefferson