If the US had a vote to split into Red America and Blue America, how would you vote?

[BlindTiresias]

127. Turning failure into success?

It is possible, but it requires acknowledging the failure and moving on and most of all requires people to be on roughly the same page. The kind of divisions that exist in the United States and are being amplified by the decline will make that kind of adaptation much more difficult or impossible. You have whole regions dead set against necessary measures like dealing with climate change or adaptation to the automation economy and they won't give up or change their minds because their entire identity since the end of 1865 has been about defiance, imposed hierarchy, and basic contrarianism against their perceived enemies, which then has a counter-escalatory effect on areas like the northeast and west who engage in, admittedly, open bigotry against the other regions.

But there is no wound to heal there because the division is likely permanent, in my opinion very similar to the permanent division that existed in the diadochi, western and eastern roman empires, and the multitude of kingdoms following the collapse of Rome.