Stephan:   The Great Schism Trend is reaching a kind of crescendo, whose outcome is unclear to me. This could pass, or it could continue to develop to crisis. I am using this South Carolina story, but I could have picked Alabama, or Kansas. All at the same time. This is an assertion of states rights over federal laws, and it must go to the Supreme Court, as will several of the others cases. Depending on how those decisions go, and how the states respond, within three years there could be a shift of power to the regional and state level because of the general recognition that we are only in some senses, like defense and border control, one country.