re: This nation is headed for a Divorce

My great great grandpa Confederate money is going to be worth something after all!

There won't be a capital, we learned from the past mistake.

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I'm still waiting for evidence on how China would just rule over us.

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I've never suggested such a thing. Foreign influence isn't the same as "ruling over," and foreign influence is a pretty common thing that every country has to deal with, to varying degrees. The degree of how many countries attempt it depends on a multiplicity of geopolitical factors. The Syrian Civil War is a good example, as smaller actors, such as the Gulf Oil States, quickly aligned themselves with larger powers in the regions where their interests align. If you don't think there will be a net increase in foreign influence if the country Balkanizes, then I don't know what to tell you.

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It's a well known fact that empires are ruinous to the fiscal being of the ruler.

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It depends. The Ottoman Empire was certainly better off having Egypt under its rule than otherwise, as tax receipts from Egypt were used to balance the treasury budget at the end of the year. There is a difference between imperial polity as it developed in successor empires to the Romans (which includes all of West Asia) and imperial overextension in terms of what they could reasonably hold. I don't think the Chinese are interested in actual physical possession, but they would be interested in taking advantage of the loss of US power to achieve their own geopolitical ends, such as securing the South China Sea, securing Taiwanese capitulation, and see to it that their objectives in Central Asia are met. There are far more geopolitical externalities than just the Chinese, though.

The republicans military would be much better then the democrats on day one. A lot of democrats would realize they don’t really want what the democrat party is offering and would beg to join us or vote for moderates . I have never seen a liberal that lived by the rules of the far left. Most of them live like republicans but are just weak minded.

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The republicans military would be much better then the democrats on day one. A lot of democrats would realize they don’t really want what the democrat party is offering and would beg to join us or vote for moderates . I have never seen a liberal that lived by the rules of the far left. Most of them live like republicans but are just weak minded.

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Socialist democrat military would most likely be nonexistent, but you can bet they’d invite in the Chinese, Norks, Iranians, Russians, Mexicans, or anyone else they think they could use to do their bidding. Part of the security of this country has always been the oceans, and our Navy. We give our coasts to the enemy, and we have a fight on our hands, superior forces or not.

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This nation is headed for a Divorce
It’s just a matter of time. Before the end of this decade for sure.

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If i didn't have a TV or internet, I'd legit have zero idea there's been riots and all that shite going on, my life hasn't changed even a little bit, and it won't. There won't be a war, the nation won't split in 2 in the next 10 years.

Life will go on, people will complain, a very tiny fraction of people will do a lot of stupid...so like since the beginning of time.

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Right. And you won’t even know it when socialist democrats outlaw and confiscate guns (of the law abiding of course). You will be completely unaware when they decide that because of your political beliefs, you are no longer afforded freedom of speech, or the presumption of innocence. You won’t even be aware when the color of your skin means you can legally be treated differently, paid less, and taxed more. Give me a fricking break. I didn’t pull any of these out of thin air. Democrats have already overtly or tacitly condoned each of these positions.

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Right. And you won’t even know it when socialist democrats outlaw and confiscate guns (of the law abiding of course). You will be completely unaware when they decide that because of your political beliefs, you are no longer afforded freedom of speech, or the presumption of innocence. You won’t even be aware when the color of your skin means you can legally be treated differently, paid less, and taxed more. Give me a fricking break. I didn’t pull any of these out of thin air. Democrats have already overtly or tacitly condoned each of these positions.

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Yep, and the country is totally going to split into 2 countries in less than a decade

Fantasy world...

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Yep, and the country is totally going to split into 2 countries in less than a decade

Fantasy world...

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I didn’t say that. I don’t think we split at all, other than skulls. Once the left has educated enough people to their true intentions, people will know that there’s no other option. It’s going to be a bloodbath.

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And America going bankrupt will ensure that China goes in influence as a result.

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By virtue of its debt? As Greenspan said in 1997, a country cannot go bankrupt due to its own obligations. The danger is the interest payments on that debt, which can trigger inflation, especially when combined with massive civil unrest. There is also a deflationary danger, as the US population is teetering on contraction due to its aging population (specifically white people, where the median age is 30 years older than the median age of other ethnic groups in the country) which has caused deflation in Japan (which isn't necessarily a 1 to 1 test case).

It is more likely that instead of a Chinese lead world, the world will be multi-polar. The US squandered its relative advantage in 1991 being the lone superpower, acting myopically in numerous foreign policy adventures. Whether the foreign policy elite will admit that the world is multi-polar now is another thing.

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I'm still trying to see why I should fear Chinese influence growing as if we don't have other options.

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Again, what externalities you should concern yourself with depends entirely on what political arrangement you envision. You haven't enumerated that arrangement, to my recall. But regardless, it is true that a complete Balkanization creates a completely new geopolitical climate which is difficult to predict, but based on history, it won't achieve any of the stated goals, especially limited government. Limited government is more likely under stronger Federalism than it would be among new nation-states, which would naturally compete with one another for access to resources.