Things fall apart.
The center will not hold.

Hope my inner vision is mistaken,
but in my mind's eye,
I see a horizon obscured by enough thick black smoke
to fill the daytime sky.
Like -- another -- explosion.

How disunion comes to pass, anybody's call.
That disunion comes to pass, this Mudcat member can no longer deny.

The conflicting forces pulling and pushing every which way
have as much force and tension in play as I care to imagine,
why speculate on "when things get worse"?

US society will survive in some form,
many groups of people will survive in some form;
but this practice of one central power holding everything together,
seems to me it can only come apart, not together.

Different group of citizens in different regions
will influence what hangs together and what falls apart.
Compromise, negotiation, working things out together --
no end to that;
only the limits and the boundaries will have to be re-drawn.