What Will The End Of The United States Look Like ?

Alan Levy's Brain | 8/19/12 | Alan Levy

[Nowhere Man]

For those reading this who laugh at the notion of an American breakup, think back to 1980. If someone had suggested then that within a dozen years, the mighty Soviet Union would exist no more, how would you have regarded such a statement?

I know. When I was junior in high school in 1983, just after KAL-007 was shot down, we were discussing the Soviet Union in American Cultures (aka "Social Studies") We all figured the USSR would break up or radically change itself "by the time we were old men/women." I figured around 2020 or 2030 at the least barring atomic war or anything else. Well, it seems it came a generation early. I remember the 1991 coup, I was up listening to Radio Moscow on shortwave, the coup planners issued a statement, then played some music and then Radio Moscow went dark.

Digressing, for craps and giggles, I asked, "what if in the future, the US became the USSR and the USSR became the US?" I then adding, "what of WE ever became the Evil Empire," sort of like Pogo Possum saying, "I've seen the enemy and he is us." This was pretty heavy discussion for 1983. Well, although Russia isn't perfectly free, it is much freer than at any point in history and in some ways, freer than us right now but as we all know, we are headed towards the USSR and even past it.

As a child, I was taught the Pledge of Allegiance with the line, “one nation, indivisible”. That may have been true in the 1950’s, but it’s no longer the case, not at all. Look at the “division” that exists between “the reds” and “the blues” today. And the gaps are deepening into chasms. The country is literally splitting apart into two opposing camps, even if the borders for now remain intact.

Sad, but true. Although we have various factions on both sides, like the social conservatives and the more libertarian "South Park Republicans" for example on our side, where the left have their own factions too but in a war, this ideological cold war, the two basic sides are there. What is troubling is I ran into lefties that would be willing to pull a trigger on any of us, that is, if they can figure out which end the bullet comes out of along with finding the trigger. In sort, the other side is scum to each other. We need to either separate peacefully somehow or we will just have to rumble. I will fight to protect my family, friends, country and so on.

What was the remark that Ben Franklin made to the woman who, during the Constitutional Convention, inquired as to what form of government they had worked out for the new nation?
“A republic, if you can keep it”, I believe he said.

Ah, the old question she asked about the sun motif on the back of George Washington's chair at the Contitutional Convention. "Is it a rising or a setting sun," and then Ben Franklin gave his answer. All I can say is the future looks murky and if it ever came down to it, I keep thinking of the old song from "The Doors" where they sing, "When the music's over, turn out the lights."