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In his 1st inaugural address, what do you suppose Lincoln meant by the government ceasing?

Would people today tolerate tyranny to avoid it?

The American civil war wasn’t a case of a failed state, it was a case of competing states. Very different situation from today.

The closest analog to an archetypical failed state in American history is probably the Bleeding Kansas situation:

Even then, today’s divisions in America are more urban-rural than geographically separated.

You answered a question I didn’t ask.