The US probably would have ended up as a giant Hudson’s Bay Company, complete with a plethora of Lords and Ladies trampling the citizens with their horse-drawn carriages and and army of mustachioed British drill sergeants to keep the Darkies and dissidents in line. I don’t share the author’s optimistic viewpoint.
When you think about it, isn’t that all the U.S. has become anyway — a nation run by corporate interests who own the government?