A national divorce has been the topic of a lot of speculation over the last few years. It’s kind of a sad thing to consider; a breakup, a Balkanization if you will, of the United States would effectively end the existence of a global superpower in the North American continent. It would be the work of decades to fix new borders in place, to establish trade that will make life at least tolerable in the new, smaller nations and city-states that arise, and to settle issues resulting from the millions of acres of land currently managed by the federal government — not to mention what will happen to the American military.
It’s not something we want to consider lightly, even though there are those on both left and right who have been calling for it for many years now. But until now, it’s just been a thought exercise; there hasn’t been any indication that we are about to cross that Rubicon….
