I wanna credit someone though. @SimpleStacker recommended "Return of the Strong Gods" some time ago. That book filled in a lot of gaps in my thinking on this. I recommend ANYONE that thinks about the political climate to read it. Doesn't matter where you are politically. Its likely he will piss you off somewhere in the book. I've thought that the US needs to move to a more federal decentralized system for decades now but I didn't connect all the dots like Reno did.

I've pretty much come to agree with Reno (Return of the Strong Gods) on why we are where we are today. You can disagree with his desired future and some of his points in his great book but its pretty obvious it was just a matter of time until people got fed up. When you push... eventually people push back.