**The Great American Opt-Out: A Matter Of Willingness, Willfulness, And Will**
The Great American Opt-Out: A Matter Of Willingness, Willfulness, And Will
_Authored by Bob Maistros via American Greatness,_ (https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/28/the-great-american-opt-out-a-matter-of-willingness-willfulness-and-will/)
**AGreat American Opt-Out (https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/19/this-time-the-only-way-out-is-out/), the partition of the world’s foremost superpower into separate red and blue nations, is certainly not a subject to be taken - nor a suggestion to be made - lightly.**
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But a superpower won’t remain super when, as Victor Davis Hanson latelylamented (https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/10/fiddling-america-away/), it must “fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we can address while ignoring the existential.”
**These existential yet insoluble problems?** They are self-inflicted wounds like weakened security, economic ruin, dysfunctional cities, nonexistent borders, transgender tyranny, and the weaponization of our justice system.
And add as a _coup de grace_—the ultimate point _past_ thepoint of no return (https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/07/the-point-of-no-return/)—Joe Biden’s diktat disappearing the internal combustion engine. This will accelerate adeath spiral (https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/20/president-biden-may-have-mandated-a-death-spiral-for-the-auto-industry/) for automakers and power producers already overwhelmed by renewable mandates. It will accentuate energy poverty, lead to decreased private ownership of soon-to-be-unaffordable automobiles, and ultimately actuate a forced flight from capacious suburbs to cramped spaces in family-unfriendly urbs—and a crimped American Dream.
Why are these problems insoluble? Because any dissent from the ruling class narrative risks persecution, prosecution, “peaceful” (read riotous) protests, lawsuits, suspensions, canceling, and cutoffs of livelihoods and necessities.
Moreover, all meaningful avenues to counter mendacious, monolithic misrule by out-of-touch elites remain stubbornly blocked.
**Today’s executive branch is a pen-and-phone and deep state-dominated operation, utterly disdainful of the people it is ostensibly devoted to serve.**
Our justice system systematically weaponizes itself against that citizenry and the judiciary injudiciously generates inventive subversions of its will (See: Obamacare, DACA, transgender rights).
Corporate America co-opts portfolios and pension funds to undermine investors’ and workers’ interests in the service of a woke ideology, an even more woke corporate media colludes with one political party, and our woke culture devalues core American values.
**We have a solve-nothing, spend-everything (and more) Congresses.**
We have an electoral process that—whether or not irretrievably tainted by systemic fraud and rigged by an elite“cabal” (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/)—dubiously delivered not just the White House but also net midterm senatorial, gubernatorial, and state legislative gains to the party of the most decrepit, degenerate, disdained and disaster-inducing presidential incumbent in history.
**Stein’s Law (as in Herbert) posits (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/467811-if-something-cannot-go-on-forever-it-will-stop), “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” America’s paralysis in fixing existential problems cannot go on at all, much less forever, without a ceding of its superpower status—if not a Weimar-level collapse.**
It must stop. Soon. But how?
Just as _Issues & Insights_ (https://issuesinsights.com/2023/04/19/signs-of-the-great-divorce-2-6-million-fled-counties-that-voted-for-biden-since-2020/) has documented millions of citizens fleeing blue-state economic, political and social rot, the sole solution for Red America is to simply vote with its feet.
**That is, _walk_. Opt out.**
Some suggest (https://americanmind.org/features/a-house-dividing/2020-a-retrospective-from-2025/) the union’s geographically dominant red counties could lead such an exodus. But a more likely route is for red states—perhaps the 18 thatunsuccessfully banded together (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html) to challenge the 2020 election results—to declare the union dissolved, whether due to that illegitimate outcome or because of the unceasing, extraconstitutional thwarting of sovereignty in the swamp. Perhaps invite red counties in blue jurisdictions to be annexed into neighboring jurisdictions, or even formnew states (https://www.ijpr.org/state-of-jefferson).
In either event, it’s not difficult to conceive the formation of a provisional governmen…
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