Multi-Ethnic States, Like the US, Historically Collapse!
Channel: Majpalmer
Date: 2020-12-10

In the modern era, multi-national states are mosiacs--small pieces of material that collectively form a work of art. But once the adhesive that holds these pieces together grows weak, the pieces break loosed and the image collapses into a chaotic mess. Historically, many forces have provided the cement for these political mosaics. Such forces include monarchy, religion, and political creeds--Constitutionalism and Communism. For example, the collapse of the Hapsburg monarchy doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The death of Communism spelled the end for the USSR, Yugoslavia, and ultimately Czechoslovakia. 
The United States is, and has always been a multi-ethnic state. The US has been held together for over two centuries by a belief in a concept that could well be termed "Americanism." But over the past several decades, the belief in the Nation, its founding, and republican government has been steadily eroded. When it's gone, what happens? Do we go the way of Yugoslavia and descend into a vicious civil war, or the route of the Czech and Slovak republics that divorced peacefully?