You make a lot of interesting points about change and how the dynamics of change might apply to our United States of America today. I think one also has to consider the fundamental parts of our union of 50 self-governing states that are the most resistant to change. In my view the fundamentals include: 1) our common currency, 2) our common defense via the US military, 3) our common citizenship that allows for a free flow of individuals within the 50 states, 4) our common regulation of interstate commerce, and 5) our federal judiciary for sorting out federal laws & regulations. The original 13 colonies of America had total freedom with making laws, having a currency, having trade, and developing defenses. But those freedoms also made each individual colony weaker than what could be achieved in a union of colonies working together in areas to be defined by a new constitution. A lot of compromise toward southern states with slaves occurred. And giving each state 2 senators regardless of population size built in conservative control of the federal government. Perhaps in the 1960s government trended into a liberal direction with more power coming under federal oversight for the environment, civil rights, and so forth. In my view that liberal trajectory is what’s being reversed now. Large parts of federal power will be turned back to the states in areas such as the environment and civil rights. Also, the federal Supreme Court will shepherd ways for individual states to ignore federal constitutional rights that a particular state wants to step around through the use of bounty laws on the model of Texas targeting women wanting abortion rights. Liberal states such as California will use bounty laws to limit guns. We are falling back to a hodgepodge of rights being allowed or disallowed at the state level. But we will keep the basic bonds of a unitary currency (the dollar) a federal military, interstate commerce, freedom of movement within the 50 states, a federal foreign policy, and federal courts, etc. There will not be a civil war. But there will be some very conservative states that limit women’s rights and clamp down on a wide range of freedoms within a particular state boundary.