It may have been a good thing.
Some general would march his/her/its troops into Congress and establish a military junta.
Everybody, including the general him/her/itself, would soon see that that was fucked up too,
almost as bad as what we've got now,
only we wouldn't be that invested in it..
In a relatively short time, like-minded states would conduct their own constitutional conventions
to establish more internally compatible multiple nations out of our one presently dysfunctional one.
The blue state nation would prosper,
and without blue state money,
the red state nation would soon become part of Mexico.
It would have been a win-win for everybody.
We just didn't have that kind of luck.