I'd rather see the U.S. split up into several states, or even 50 independent nation-states, before it annexes Canada like the war hawks of the War of 1812 aspired for.
This country has become too large, too unwieldy, too diverse, too full of competing economic and political elites to function as a single extensive republic. The question at the founding about whether this country would be too large for a representative government can today, more than two centuries later, be reasonably answered with "no".
This country has become too large, too unwieldy, too diverse, too full of competing economic and political elites to function as a single extensive republic. The question at the founding about whether this country would be too large for a representative government can today, more than two centuries later, be reasonably answered with "no".