These attempts to secede (every time I type secede, it auto corrects to succeed??) are promoted by people trying to make a buck off of the gullible and easily led.

Lots of rallies, lots of fund raising, the creating of heroes and villains, then it all fades into background noise after the money flow slows.

I'm thinking this was tried on a very large scale not that far back in our history.

How'd that go?