As I’ve said, as I grow readership for this website, I want to become eventually just moderator mainly and let others create most of the content. But I said I want to add details early about myself, so here is another detail:
I decided over Memorial Day weekend that I will be spending only half of my time between now and November trying to get progressives to vote, because we are on the knife edge about to become a dictatorship. The other half will be spent advocating for what I expect will be inevitable beginning November 9th if Democrats lose Congress. That is “disunion” (the breakup of the United States).
If that happens on November 8th, then the next day ALL of my time will be spent from then on advocating for a peaceful, fair disunion.
For the past two weeks or so, I have been doing lots of reading regarding disunion.
I have just finished Alexander Moss’s new book, A More Perfect Union.
I think his disunion plan is excellent. I encourage readers to read the book.
I foresee an even simpler version of disunion than Moss’s theoretical one. In my version, the US becomes just two nations rather than six.
Here is how it will happen:
The Republicans retake Congress in 2022 but the Democrats manage to retain the presidency in 2024. (Biden/Harris? Harris/O’Rourke? Whatever.)
50 percent of Republicans already want disunion. When they fail to take full control in 2024, they will be at the boiling point, so that percent will be much higher.
40 percent of Dems already want disunion too, though, so the idea will be huge by 2024.
I am cynical and angry that we got to this point, so I call my plan “Let Them Go”.
However, red America will love it, and they will call it “Heartland Freedom”.
I will present Heartland Freedom by describing the two poles: the least divided scenario, and the most divided.
In the least divided, the twelve reddest states secede, peacefully and amicably, but only those twelve. They form the new country, Heartland States of America. Our Union with them, as structured according to Alexander Moss’s book, will probably be just called America, and the other 38 states will still be called the USA. The twelve states are Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. It will not be that bad because the 38 states in the USA will still be contiguous, and the HSA will be contiguous and fairly compact:
In the most divided scenario, there will be 33 states in the USA, and 37 states in the HSA, which will still be fairly compact but go clear to Canada, splitting the USA into a western half and an eastern half. This will come about, firstly, because seven more states will choose to join the HSA. Those are Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Iowa. Also, the rural, red parts of eighteen states will also choose to split off and join the HSA which they will be adjacent to. These eighteen new cleaved HSA states are eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northeast California, northeast Nevada, western Colorado, the Florida panhandle, western Georgia, western South Carolina, western North Carolina, western Virginia, western Maryland, southeastern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, all of Missouri except the Saint Louis area, northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern and western Minnesota. Finally, Puerto Rico and District of Columbia will be two new states in the USA.
In this latter scenario, the remaining USA will be VERY blue, and the new HSA will be VERY red. That’s why I called it the most divided scenario:
What will probably happen is something between the two poles I just described, with the HSA being contiguous in the middle of the current USA, and the new USA being either cut in half by the HSA, or carved out in the center by it.
By the end of 2024, at the rate things are going politically in America as of early June 2022, disunion will be seen as inevitable, and the only questions will be how thorough the division will be. It will end up being somewhere between the two poles I just described here.
I said, in the most divided scenario, the new USA would be VERY blue, and the new HSA would be VERY red. Also, USA would be very urban and suburban, and HSA very rural.
The biggest rural places still left in USA would be in Arizona, New Mexico, and Maine.
The biggest cities in the new HSA, approximately in order of size, would be Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Kansas City, Austin, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Louisville, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Birmingham, Tulsa, and Omaha.