Someone Should Secede

I was in Canada working on the day that Quebec took a vote to secede from the rest of Canada. The vote narrowly failed, which I was happy about because it would have cut Canada in half. Wanting to secede seemed like the rashest of answers to a tough question. As in all things Canadian, they found another way.  
I worked in both Scotland and the UK and was sad when the Scots took a vote about splitting from Britain. It failed and the Kingdom has remained United. But then that same Kingdom voted last year for Brexit, the separation of the UK from the EU. Sad, and probably short sighted. The cards are not played out on how this is going to work out.
Now Catalonia is voting to leave Spain. Sure they have cool Barcelona and probably more money than the rest of poor Spain, but becoming a small free standing country with all the infrastructure costs to set yourself up diplomatically, are you that rich? Can’t you work it out?
It is so easy to hope that people could get along and do the hard work to come to a compromise when it is not your country. Now, given what has been going on in this country, with this POTUS I would be looking to secede if I could. We don’t have enough politicians with any backbone to stand up to the NRA to even have a rational talk about gun control. We have a president who is the most tone deaf narcissistic human being on earth, telling the people of Puerto Rico they have ruined his budget. Like the whole territory got together and said, “Let’s will the worst storm in history of our land to come and take out all our infrastructure, food and water so as to ruin the budget.”
When 45 tells the people of Puerto Rico that their storm is not as bad as Katrina because only 16 people died so they are lucky, I don’t think the families of those 16 consider themselves lucky. The story of Hurricane Maria is not written yet. You can’t tally how many people have lost their lives until everything is rebuilt. Going without electricity, clean water, food and medicine for long periods of time will take another toll on the people of this island.  
I never actually considered succession as an answer to a problem before now, but it is getting close. Seems like this great democratic experiment is being tested in the most extreme way. The guy who ran on the “drain the swamp” platform has cabinet heads who are spending ridiculous amounts of money on private planes and phone booths in their offices, and a son-in-law using non-secure private servers for government emails. Huh! Seems like that is all stuff you all complained about from previous administrations. So you can’t live up to your own promises and you can’t lead with any compassion. Save us all and why don’t you secede 45? Maybe you can go back to your wife’s homeland.