One of the big fears of anti-divorce proponents is that the process will be too quick. I'd like to propose the idea that when a divorce is signed it will only take effect after 35 years. I chose 35 years because the vast majority of government bonds are under thirty years in length. That will give the Federal Government time to wind itself down while individual states begin their transition. It will also help the opponents relax a bit.

First time hearing of this sub, though i'm familiar with the idea in general.

I'll keep this short: When emperor Constantine saw that the Roman Empire was spending way too much money and heading downhill, he split the empire in two. The parts that spent the money to the west, and the parts that made money to the east. The eastern empire, nowadays called Byzantine, lasted another thousand years; while the west fell within a century.

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The longer story is: government spent too much money. Over ~100 years of peace their number of provinces increased tenfold, as did their number of public workers. Soldiers at some point realized its easier to steal from their own people via the State than to invade and plunder, so they kept deposing emperors whenever someone promised he'd pay them more if he were in power. One might even call that a deep state or something. Spending led to inflation. Inflation led to all sorts of crazy economic policies, including price control. Public workers wanted to show how important they were in order to keep their cozy jobs, so they made up more and more rules.

By the time the "barbarians" showed up, the people welcomed the change. The empire had defeated itself.

I like it because its

1. Peaceful

I honestly don’t know why more people have no considered this as an option.

The left and the right HATE each other. So much. I don’t get why they want to continue this dance under the federal government.

Hopefully conversations like this happen more.