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They will be tying you to the stake next!

Looks like I'll at least die warm!

Jokes aside, it is dangerous to be a dissenter when an empire is crumbling and looking to blame everyone but its own political class. The UK managed to survive the last century of imperial shriveling, but I doubt the US will manage to emerge unscathed. I suspect there is a small chance of balkanization ahead.

I read as book indeed with the premise being that the US has seceded into several small nations. It was about fifteen twenty years ago and I remember enjoying the book but thinking it was a bit ridiculous. Not so now