Secession is the smart and peaceful solution to irreconcilable political differences. I wrote a short essay about five especially bad arguments you often hear against secession, and the Libertarian Institute published it!
Check it out here, and if you liked it, you’ll surely like more of their content! They publish greats like Scott Horton, Ron Paul, Jim Bovard, Sheldon Richman, and more! Support them if you can!
I’m frankly surprised that this is becoming a viable topic. Secession is a hugely important part of liberty–it’s the ability of a person or a group to separate itself from a government that is not serving its purpose.
Yet at the same time, we need to be aware of inertia as a political force. If secession occurs in the U.S., we can expect that change to encourage some of the worst in government to seize as much power as possible.
Therefore, we need to support secession consistently (meaning even after a hypothetical U.S. national divorce) and work to avoid rapid polarization.
Anyway, this video is a short discussion on that topic.