In an earlier post I speculated on just how unstable the mix of ideologies and cultural differences in the United States now is.

Nothing lasts forever, but the fracturing of the United States is happening before our very eyes, something I never thought even remotely possible not all that long ago. The question is no longer will it fall apart, but how can it be made whole again?

So now we have this, Exclusive: Angry with Washington, 1 in 4 Americans open to secession.

Some 23.9 percent of Americans polled from Aug. 23 through Sept. 16 said they strongly supported or tended to support the idea of their state breaking away, while 53.3 percent of the 8,952 respondents strongly opposed or tended to oppose the notion.

Only just over half are opposed! When the most decisive issue on everyone’s mind when voting is abortion, Americans really are living in a fantasyland. And it’s not just anger with Washington but it’s anger with their fellow citizens in other states, to which is added, no doubt, a large hispanic desire to return the south west of the United States to Mexico. There was a time I could tell you what the United States stood for, what its ideals are, but no longer. It is fractured and hard to see how it could be made whole.