Secession will probably become necessary to save/restore America (the culture and the founding principles), but there really is a bad side that has to be resolved.
The U.S. federal govt would retain control of the military assets, the currency, and federal property.
On the micro level, what happens to the SSN/Medicare/military “pensions” that individuals have paid into if these individuals reside in a Free State? Would folks have to self-deport to a Slave State in order to retain their earned benefits?
Confederate soldiers received state pensions. Actually it was pretty good and transferable to the spouse. A lot of old men exploited this to get fairly attractive younger women to marry them The last Confederate bride died only a few years ago.
Secession means complete and total political dis-unification. States leaving the union would no longer be a part of the federal union, and therefore not subject to any claims by that now 'foreign' government.
If the state is successful in secession then the new “state/country/province” would have standing to extract from the social security and military retirement systems amounts equivalent to what their citizens paid in. Those moneys would then be invested in the province operated retirement programs which would probably mean more cash for the recipients.
I don’t see those funds as an impediment.
“The U.S. federal govt would retain control of the military assets, the currency, and federal property.”
What makes you think that? When the Libyans split up in 2011 civil war, more than 70% of the troops abandoned Qaddhafi’s fascist government and took their weaponry with them in order to protect their families in the provinces.