The Problem with America & A Solution

THE PROBLEM

The fundamental problem with America is that it was founded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_colonies) upon three great crimes, the:

I. "Genocide" of the red-man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide#Genocide_debate).

II. Enslavement of the black-man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_slavery).

III. Rape of the environment (both social and physical) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_impact_of_colonial_Americans_before_1877).

Although one or more of these crimes have been committed in every region of this hemisphere and many other places in the world, the heinous nature of these crimes has been keenly perceived from the beginning of the state that resulted from the revolution against British rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution). These crimes (and others) have divided America into two different cultures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States).

The first culture is one that finds no problem with any of the crimes. It has, in fact, enshrined these crimes into the notion of ‘manifest destiny’ where this land and all of its animals and peoples were gifted, by God, to be ruled by peoples of white European (but most particularly, English) descent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny). This culture combines simplistic notions of protestant Christianity with white suprematism and unfettered capitalism.

The second culture (the one I belong to) combines secularism and racial and religious tolerance with the application of capitalism to the establishment of a civil society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society) and a social safety net (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_net). The second culture finds great moral and historical issue with these crimes considered ‘manifest destiny’ by the first culture. The second culture sees these crimes as the festering seeds of the destruction of a just and proper American culture. American militarism, jingoism, and racism are seen in the second culture to have roots in these crimes. While, the second culture has attempted to enshrine the Rights Of Englishmen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Englishmen) in the heart of this nation’s political philosophy, all attempts have been compromised due to the other culture in order to hold ‘The Union’ together. This, of course leads right up to the War Between The States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War).

I will (simplistically) call the first culture Conservative America (CA) and the second culture, Liberal America (LA).

Now, the fundamental assertion of this essay is that CA and LA are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. We see this played-out everyday in the news and congress and the courts. We see this currently being played-out over ‘health care reform’. It is easy to predict that ‘health care reform’ will be compromised as have all other legislative attempts to form a greater civil society in American history.

So, how do we deal with this incompatibility?

THE SOLUTION

The solution to most of the current social problems in American is to have CA secede from the United States as it did with the formation of the Confederate States of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America). The CA would withdraw from the U.S. to form its own country within the boundaries of the former slave states of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_state). Call it, the Southern United States or the Solid South (SS) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_South). All properties and holdings of the U.S. government would be removed from the SS or destroyed. Land swaps would be granted for all those moving from one country to the other for a limited time. The Republican party and all other ‘right-wing’ parties would be banned in the U.S. and helped to relocate in the SS. Those professing ‘right-wing’ and/or conservative ideologies would be helped to relocate in the SS.

The main problem I see with this arrangement is a security problem brought on by military aggression from the SS. I envision the SS attempting to invade various countries in Latin America as well as staging a take over of Canada from the more conservative western Canadian provinces. (However, this would be slowed by their need to purchase a new military industrial complex.) Therefore, it might become advantageous for the U.S. and Canada to form a merger of some kind where conservative Canadians are helped to emigrate to a chastened SS.

If a partition would work for Israel (Palestine), why wouldn't it work here?

but, of course, ‘the devil is in the details’, so...

more…on that…later!