Doug Casey’s Take (ep. #7) - The US Will Break Apart - Here’s how

Doug Casey gives his take on why America will break apart and how exactly it might unfold. As always, Doug puts this in the context of history discussing the past nation-state breakups from the violent breakup of Yugoslavia to the peaceful “Velvet Divorce” of Czechoslovakia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and balkanization.

Doug explains what the definition of a civil war is and why the American “Civil War” wasn’t one.

How cultural and economic differences led to the war.

The differences between red and blue are greater today than those between north and south in that era.

On what lines the US might fragment.

How Politics is Poison.

And much more.

00:00:00 Introduction
1:07 What is culture?
3:18 What is a civil war? Why we didn’t really have one
8:58 Will States break apart?
10:46 Upcoming Election, further division?
16:02 Gun control
17:58 How would the US break apart?
21:21 Positive possibilities
27:09 Models for a breakup
33:12 Balkanization
35:30 Politics is poisonous
37:14 Fear of other