At first you don’t secede.....
The first one went miserably, and I posit that it was because of slavery. To beg before God to be free when you aren’t even making your inhabitants free, is to court a rebuke. It doesn’t matter what the North was doing, God is not letting the South hide behind the North.
And do we have slavery today?
We have the soft slavery of low expectations (GWB called it bigotry). Our charity has decayed into idle entitlements, that do not urge betterment where they are applied.
We’ll have to become ungreat in a JFK sense of the all helping government (not its mission before God) before we can become great in a Trumpian sense.
Reforming this may or may not entail a Section V action on an earthly plane. God acts in mysterious ways, so goes the saying. But we need the spiritual basis.