This is so wrong

Here's someone arguing for the peaceful breakup of the USA.  This is bad, and to show why, you always need to question the basic premises of any argument.  The basic premise here is the one of "peace".  If you break up the country, you will lose a lot of your military power.  With that comes the likelihood of being invaded from countries that will no longer be overawed by the immensity of this country.  Therefore, even if the breakup is peaceful, the long term outlook for peace is much diminished.

That is not all.  If you think you've got border problems now, you haven't seen anything yet.  Just look at the guy's proposed map.  These borders cannot be defended.  A defensible border includes one with natural boundaries which can be defended.  These borders are wide open.  If one country or another get on bad terms, wars will be fought over these territories.

Actually, the current border of the US is quite secure, thank you very much.  With the Rio Grande forming much of the border with Mexico, you stand a much better chance of securing that than with the one he proposes.  What we lack today is the will to enforce ANY border.

What could really happen here is that his breakup wouldn't last.  The real problem is that the left wing is concentrated in the big cities.  These city states would be even more vulnerable than his map implies.  Consequently, the only way they can hold their oppressed conservative minorities into check is to stop being what they are--- which is pacifist.

This may seem to contradict what the left projects, which seems violent.  But the left isn't violent.  They cannot become militarily adventurous unless they change their very natures.  Their hatred of the so-called right is real, but that doesn't translate into military effectiveness.  In other words, if the country splits up, the red zones in the Blue Country will secede, and want to join the Red Country.  How does the new Blue Country enforce its new borders?  It can't without changing its nature.  It would have to change its very reason for existence.  ( Another premise squashed. )

We have problems, no doubt.  But this is a really bad idea.