Voting is a shibboleth. Any vote that doesn't ratify overwhelming existing social agreement or involve mere procedural questions is simple tyranny of the major

Voting is a shibboleth. Any vote that doesn't ratify overwhelming existing social agreement or involve mere procedural questions is simple tyranny of the majority and, as we have seen, if the elites are unhappy with the current majority they are perfectly happy to replace it with another one. Social consensus and trust are the key to ordered liberty, and secessionism is the way to devolve sovereignty enough to grant them to groups with different fundamental and unreconcilable values.