Why hate America -- Europe it totally fucked up too
We already had our Civil War -- good luck with yours.
I have never seen a passport issued by the EU -- there are none.
The EU is NOT one inadvisable nation. Stop fooling yourself. Every nations' populace in the EU has a Plan B exit strategy.
In fact if you study US history US states acted very similarly in the 20 years before the American Civil War. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the American Civil War -- over states rights and succession from the union.
Good fucking luck ... We have assholes wearing red hats still trying to fight the states-rights issue and against federalism 150 years later ...
Without the EU Europe is just a bunch of nations for the world to deal with and half of them amount to very little. Can you imagine the US state of Alabama negotiating a trade deal with Russia, China or India? Why bother?