Perhaps you would not
I would none the less be interested in the reasons you believe there will be a revolution/civil war........... We don't have to agree.
I'm not predicting the future because I won't be around to see the not too distant future and also, I realize, that I don't understand how people think anymore.
When you get to be seventy-four, you may be alive but your world isn't. At this point, you're living in the next generation's world.
I don't understand why partition would necessarily precipitate a civil war except for one thing.
It's a mutually beneficial thing in every way except for Red State financial solvency.
The people who leach as recipient-state-residents understand that without being takers of Blue State tax revenues, they could not survive economically.
Take away that factor, and both sides come out ahead not trying to share the same government while having totally incompatible core values.
Unless you're in third grade Sunday school, you understand that we're not living in a "right and wrong" universe.
Right and wrong, even if they exist as actual components of life, play no practical role in our politics.
When people want completely different things, it's about what we want, not what's right.
No, we live in an "us and them" world. We're so polarized that unity would require the kind of capitulation that would bring down humiliation on both sides.
I see the United States as they exist now to be an untenable proposition.
The same condition that caused the partition of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia exist right now in the US.
We have factions who don't ideologically or culturally belong existing under the same government trying with little success to do so.
Economics aside, Red States and Blue States would actually get along much better as neighboring countries than as a single nation.
Coastal progressives like myself share no common social and cultural values with Middle America, but if we weren't making each other's laws, we could co-exist peacefully as neighbors.
Economics are the rub.
Even with amicable trade, the Red States could never survive economically without being propped up by Blue State tax money.
Assume, then, that nothing can be done and we're going to stay the way we are.
Hating each other as we do,
and I dismiss as disingenuous liars anybody who suggests that we don't hate one another,
we'll rot from the inside.
At that point, China controls the entire world with no balancing super power. opposite them;
and the would be Pollyanna "unifiers" will have to bear the blame.
