Bill Whittle had a great Star Wars analogy, Where in the first three parts of the story, English accent speaking elitists lose liberty, and in the last three of the series, typically Americana characters fight against impossible odds to defeat tyranny, starting with the episode “A New Hope”.
Ironic, and very prophetic perhaps.
If it does happen, the end of the US in it’s present form may not necessarily mean “the end”.
“If it does happen, the end of the US in it’s present form may not necessarily mean “the end”.”
Nothing lasts forever. Nothing.
Not even nations.
The United States of America had a good run, but I sense that its time is drawing close to the end — at least the end of America “as we know and recognize it to be”.
Something else is coming down the pike. We can’t be sure of what form it will take yet.
It may be a continuance of the USA as a territorial entity, but with a significantly different form of government, as distinguished from the government which it was bequeathed by its founders. The “government that is coming” may be something far more akin to socialism (many here would claim it already is), with the notion of “the rule of law” largely replaced by the “rule of man/men” (more power concentrated in the presidency, but vastly more power in the hands of bureaucrats and regulators). Oh, we’ll still have the same flag, and the same “Constitution” on paper, but it will have become pretty much “for show” only — as quaint and ancient as the Magna Carta is for the British.
Or, it could be some kind of “North American Union” between Mexico and the United States, perhaps with Canada as well. We are certainly moving towards a situation where the Southern Border is all-but dissolved, since the federal government no longer seems to have any interest in maintaining its integrity nor any desire to control the deluge that pours across it.
Finally, it could go the other way — that is, we could see some kind of Soviet-style breakup of North America and the formation of several “new nations” involving the USA, Canada, and perhaps Mexico (with the emergence of Atzlan taking southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and even a portion of Texas).
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?
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.
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.
Well, we had a republic for quite some time, but after the 1950’s we seem to have lost interest in “keeping it”. Instead, in a hopeless drive to be “egalitarian” and compassionate, we have literally given it away.
It remains to be seen what we’ll end up with, in its stead.