More on the supposed breakup of the Union

6/2/26:

There's really no way to sustain a war like the one in the nineteenth century. The only way to break up the union would be by mutual consent.

How do you sustain armies when it would be so easy to starve people out? You cannot forage on the countryside like in the old days. There's nowhere to go if order breaks down. It wouldn't last long at all. As this article seems to point to, the most likely consent would come from a Democrat administration with a breakup demand from red states. The RINO wing might let the Dems separate. Not sure about the MAGA wind. It should be a firm "NO". Democrats cannot win without fraud and violence. Nobody in the right mind would voluntarily choose the kind of rot-gut leftism running so rampant in the Democrat party now.

12/15/14:

Saw something on Maha's blog that hinted the same theme.   Now these guys on the left really don't know their vulnerability.  Their problem is bigger than the South.

Here's their proposition:  they want to split, but their populations are on isolated islands in the big cities.  With their world view on such issues as war and piece plus energy, how the heck are they going to run these energy intensive areas?  You can't put windmills and solar panels in New York City.  War and Peace?  Where do these social justice warriors going to come from when they kicked out the people who are likely to man the battalions?  How are they going to reproduce when their access to  the red states is cut off?  They need people, how are they going to get them if they are aborting them or having same sex relationships?

They need all these things, but somehow they think they can do without them.  A breakup of the Union would be sheer folly for them.

What would stop the red counties from seceding from their blue states?  Does the secession only work one way?  How do they stop it if they don't believe in force?

It doesn't work.  Sheer lunacy.