What was America is now…

Or so says a Russian professor of something or another, who is also a former KGB analyst. The map portrays his prediction of what will soon happen to the United States of America.

Here is the complete article, As if Things Weren’t Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.

For a minute I will stipulate his general point, but only for the sake of ridiculing the particulars.

First, Texas as part of Mexico? As Duke Wayne once said, “Not hardly.” Igor Panarin should read Lone Star by TR Fahrenbach to understand why. Texas as an independent republic? Maybe as the center of a larger republic, but I’m still not buying it.

Second “Atlantic America” fails to consider that there are vast differences between New England and several of the southern states listed. South Carolina allied with Massachusetts? I can’t see it. If anything, I’d see it pushing more to the midwest states, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and other left leaning states. I can see everything south of Maryland allying with other former Confederate States of America states and some areas that were still territories.

Idaho part of California? Considering how many people leave California to go to Idaho, I’m pretty doubtful.

The problem is that there is too much federal government that intimidates and overwhelms component states and individual citizens.

Of course there is an alternative to all this. It’s wild and crazy, but it might just work.

Why don’t we break down into, let’s pick a number out of a hat, fifty or so separate sovereign states that have a common federal government which will serve our very few collective interests. You know, stuff like national defense, border integrity, commerce between the fifty or so sovereign states, international treaties, and a few projects that might benefit all or many of the states but which they can’t embark upon individually. I’ll even through in the Interstate Highway System since it was originally intended to allow for the rapid movement of troops across the nation. Remember, it’s officially called the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System for a reason.

We’ll leave things like who can drive, who gets welfare, how the schools are run, criminal procedures, and other matters that are the internal concern of the sovereign states to the individual states to decide. We won’t have the national government worrying about things like if school kids get healthy breakfasts, who gets abortions and who doesn’t, and and who can smoke where and when. Let alone things like a federal death penalty for car jacking. That way the national government needs far less money to run and the taxpayers in those theoretical sovereign states can have a greater say in how their money is spent, not to mention how much. Maybe America could then return to the manufacturing powerhouse it used to be when we actually MADE stuff that the rest of the world bought.

Regulations imposed at the local and state levels, not by an overbearing national government that primarily exists to allow people to avoid making hard decision until they can collect their pension and become lobbyists.

We could call it the UNITED States of America, because the states use the federal government only when the problem or question is larger than any one or even group of states can solve amiably among themselves.

NAHHHHHHHH, it could never work.