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Call it soft secession, pre-balkinization, whatever you want; it’s already happening. We need to decide if it happens as a deliberate, managed separation or as a chaotic disintegration.” Major insurers have already withdrawn from Florida because climate change is real whether Ron DeSantis admits it or not. Businesses are leaving states that ban books because educated workers won’t move there. Reality asserts itself through economics when it can’t assert itself through politics. A country requires some degree of cooperation and consensus, not just about laws and borders. When one-third of the country sees rain and another third sees sunshine while looking at the same sky, you don’t have a country with different weather preferences. You have two populations occupying different dimensions who happen to share geographic coordinates. At some point, we need to stop pretending otherwise. Governance with bad faith fascists is not tenable, we don’t just have an election and then return to normal. This conclusion follows directly from observable facts, regardless of political preference. Democracy is worth defending, but it cannot function when a significant minority has abandoned the factual foundation democracy requires. The solution isn’t to keep pretending we can govern together. The solution is to recognize we’re already governing separately, formalize that reality, and build systems that function for those of us still living in the actual world.