We Need to Talk About Soft Secession

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5. There will be no secession

That question was settled in 1865.

Secessionists never discuss or consider all the myriad complications that would arise from even an amicable dissolution of the union:

Social Security

Medicare

National Debt

Nuclear arsenal

Determination of citizenship in the new nations

Secession talk is just a parlor game for those unwilling or unable to do the complex problem solving and hard work required to take back and restore democracy, starting with, in 2029, expanding the court and killing the filibuster to do so.

That being said, I’m all for states asserting their authority and resisting this regime- let’s just not facilitate any mythology about creating a new all-blue utopian nation.