The Disunited States of America

Many years ago in the Bay Area I heard a clairvoyant speak.  She hated George Bush II and looked into the future to see the outcome of his policies. But instead, she saw the break up on the United States into a series of regional republics. Shock gripped the audience. When mine subsided, I realized the question was not if this will happen, but rather, are the preconditions here? My own suspicions that they were became confirmed with Bill Bishop’s 2008 book: The Big Sort.  Later, I read a Christian website suggesting leaving high housing cost states like California for low cost housing states. Why be a two paycheck family with added daycare expense when you can be a stay at home parent elsewhere? That seems like a common sense path to family preservation and good parenting.

Locally, two leaders in the former Mother Lode Tea Party have left, one to Idaho and the other to Utah. It now costs $2,085 for a U-Haul from San Francisco to Las Vegas but only $132 for the return journey. I made an emotionally and politically similar move, although within the same state, to Amador County from LA. I documented my tyrannical government experience there while trying to develop affordable housing in my 7/16 Outside the Ivory Tower entitled Reality Intruded. Amador County has since transitioned from loggers and other feet on the ground folks to something very different. Often court decisions now seem made by the judge’s ideology rather than rule of law. Certainly this includes the Obama appointees, but also some judges closer to home. I researched the relevant cases, but was warned by someone with greater expertise than me to not mention names and get sued.  My immediate response recalled my prior visceral response to Obama’s attacks on The Little Sisters of the Poor: I am not living in America anymore.

The data keeps reaffirming the resorting of the American population. Major media and especially social media now commonly use the term "Civil War". While polarization will continue along with political and “random” violence increasing, it wouldn’t be the armies of one state against another. The United States will likely break into a series of regional republics. I’ve read others that share this same prognostication.  Perhaps the national debt will never be repaid with the swamp creatures of Washington migrating to areas of their liking. A breakup is the cleanest way to destroy the power of the United States. The globalists will then have won and proceed to determine the next millennium of human history.

End notes: Bill Bishop’s The Big Sort is worth reading, but it occasionally suffers from his liberalism. For example, he underestimated the influence of Evangelicals and was certainly proven wrong with Trump’s election.

East, South and West conflicts have always been part of American history. But despite one civil war, most people were preoccupied within their smaller region or a city and its hinterland and their respective economics.

Copyright 2019, Mark L. Bennett