For a couple of years I've been mentioning how the United States, as a de facto weak empire is ripe for a split to smaller polities. This is exasperated (facilitated?) by a rapidly growing population, increasing levels of diversity, tremendous draws on social cohesion capital, and a very long de facto border (due to foreign entanglements).
This survey seems to suggest the idea is getting more and more likely.
A read through some liberal Mormon blogs got me convinced that fairly educated professor types have absolutely no inclination to compromise with respect to governmance and political morality. Neither do Trumpers.
Other than very dramatic policy swings from one administration to another (like disbanding the FBI to purge it, then recreating another one every election swing), there really is no alternative. You are going to have to kill one side to silence them. The right currently thinks this is exactly where Biden's military purge, "extremist" databases and "Great Reset" are headed. The racist anti-white genocidal language doesn't help much. The other side is convinced Trumpists are authoritarian Nazi's who are only be held back by media righteousness and social peer pressure.
The only way to let each side be themselves is to split the country apart. The best bet here is to produce two voluntary confederacies. This would require some state border re-alignments. For instance, eastern Washington, Oregon and north East California would go Red. Parts of Arizona and New Mexico and maybe Colorado would go blue. The rest is easy to figure out.
I'm afraid that is the only viable pluralistic option there is. Neither side is willing to be subject to the rules of the other.
This stat shows how close to reality this likelyhood now is
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/shock-poll-two-in-three-southern-republicans-want-to-secede-from-the-united-states/
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