I mostly agree, but there's hella inertia behind us. We may collapse into a second Great Depression. After that, liberal politicians and policies ruled for decades and brought us back from the brink. And yes, WWII's role is not to be discounted. Complex topic, ain't it?
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See, I think this is the inevitable and indeed, intended outcome of the current administration. Corporate elites find capturing and corrupting state and local governments to be far cheaper, so their goal is to break up the US federal system into smaller parts and then go around buying entire towns/cities/states until eventually we have an official aristocratic dictatorship.
The biggest issue with the scenario even as you describe it is the extremely high likelihood of war between various states over things like aid, trade disputes, and sheer resource wars as e.g. Colorado runs out of water and Oklahoma continues to have no money and becomes desperate at the loss of federal funds.