<p>Yeah, Anarchy is possible, we just need a super full scale nuclear war or a complete economic collapse. This would eliminate about 80% of the world’s population, and then lead the remaining citizens of the world to roam the wastelands free of oppression or influence by anyone but themselves and who they wish to put around themselves.</p>
<p>(See: Pretty much every post-apocalyptic film ever made. Even though some people will rise to create new systems of government, their governments will be much too weak to control the people, and the people will rebel against said governments and remove them when oppressed. Reinstating the anarchist state. Almost like a circle of life.)</p>
<p>A lot of that argument goes into whether one believes that people need a leader to lead them. I believe that people do not need anyone to lead them, and that people should be independent of any outside control. (If you couldn’t tell already, I’m a Libertarian / Objectivist)</p>
<p>^^ If they did, do you think Obama would have the backbone to fight them over it? I’ve been wondering that lately. I used to think scessionists were a lunatic fringe that would never be a real thing, but after what I’ve seen in the last few years nothing suprises me anymore. The US military is extremely powerful, so if it did come to war, it’d be a rerun of Russia vs. Georgia… But it could end up with a PLO-type resistance going on and on, which is something I really hope we never see here.</p>
<p>^ Why would he fight them? I don’t honestly think the states would allow themselves to succeed, and even if they did, depending on the state, they would most likely become a territory rather than a state. No war would be necessary.</p>
<p>^ I hope not. But why did Lincoln fight the South then? I agree that actual secession seems unlikely, but then a lot of unlikely things have happened recently. Does anyone know how this works legally? Has anyone even asked? CAN a state return to territorial status if it wants to?</p>
<p>The South was not actually about territory. It was about slavery and government control. At the time, we greatly needed the south.</p>
<p>I don’t think legally a state can return to a territory, but I’m not sure how the government could stop a state from declaring themselves sovereign. Above my paygrade.</p>