Right, they face a daunting task: to find a narrow path between the devil of collapsing Babel Tower of twin deficits & state debt and the deep blue sea of civil disturbances. Your next civil war is possible, though I wish them success and hope you'll avoid internal stasis.

Secession that some progressives & Dem Party zealots are toying with, be it Northern or Coastal one, is not an option. Red and Blue electoral zones permeate one another so diffusively that one look at the color-coded US electoral preferences map is sufficient to fathom deepness of the problem.