As a nation, we're growing apart

 

Something's coming. I don't think it will be violent and/or bloody, but something's coming.

The US Constitution is a compact agreed to by the individual States. Each State has its own 3 branches of government, passes and enforces its own laws, and can provide for its own "common defense". Each State holds elections for its own political structure. Hence, each State is an independent authority.

Prior to the forming of the United States, John Adams supposedly called Massachusetts "My Country". Each of the 13 original States were "countries" which came together in a common cause.

The Constitution capitalizes the word State to acknowledge the independence of those "countries" that came together to form the United States.

For the second time in this nation's history, that common cause is quickly vanishing, caused, in large part, and both times, by the overreach of the federal government.

We are heading toward another exercise in dissolution. However, this time, the federal government will be unable to call up troops to try to force individual States to remain together.

This time, the dissolution will be the refusal to comply with federal laws that compel behavior or directly conflict with Constitutionally-guaranteed rights as enumerated in its text.

It will be a slow drift apart - and there will be nothing the federal government can do about it.

Like-minded states will form their own compacts and cooperate based on their own best interests.

The dissolution will reduce tensions accordingly. The result may be 4-5 of those independent compacts, each finally able to implement the political controls that they wish. Some will continue to remain representative republics, while others will adopt "democratic socialist" forms of government.

And those in the "democratic socialist" areas will finally have what they want: full control over a compliant population.

I wouldn't be surprised if they built a "retaining wall"...