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Increasingly it has become evident that the American nation, founded with such high hopes and aspirations in 1787, is expiring, dying a prolonged, painful but also virulently infectious death.
Those words are very difficult to write, especially for someone whose American ancestry goes back to Virginia in 1646, and whose ancestors helped settle other Southern states, who served honorably in both state and local elected offices, and who fought in every major war in which my state North Carolina and this country have been involved, including for the Confederacy in 1861-1865. Indeed, I think it quite conceivable that had the Confederacy been victorious in its efforts at peaceful separation in 1861, much of the later calamities and putrefaction which afflict this country might have been avoided.
Admittedly, such a statement is counterfactual. I recall at the beginning of the “Civil War Centennial” in 1960 that author MacKinlay Kantor authored a serialized work, “If the South Had Won the Civil War,” chronicling a “what if” history of America after a Southern victory in that war for Southern independence. Kantor’s scenario first appeared in instalments in Look Magazine, and then in book form in 1961. And there have been others since then.
But it has been largely in the past decade that such alternative histories seem no longer in the realm of fantasy, but actual precursors of events that could very well occur here in the USA.
Over the past five years I have written seven essays suggesting some form of national separation of the American states, perhaps even within states, that might well be the most peaceful, least violent way to alleviate the increasingly unbridgeable, implacable, and vicious divisions tearing this nation apart. Just a cursory read of the “establishment” Leftist press (e.g. The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, etc.) should convince anyone of this—anyone, that is, whose mind has not been thoroughly possessed by the demonic “woke” infection that can only be described as satanic.
The great Russian novelist, Feodor Dostoevsky, 250 years ago (in The Possessed, 1872), understood clairvoyantly both the foul and evil character of such poison, as well as the truly theological nature of such spiritual inversion. In a very real sense, he foresaw the coming not just of the Russian Revolution but also of the successive waves of what is essentially a continuing revolt against God and His Creation. (See my essay, “The Devils in the Demonstrators,” in the November 2012 issue of Chronicles magazine.)
My little essays include: “Is Secession the Answer?” at the Abbeville Institute; “Is It Time for America to Break Apart,” at The Unz Review, the Abbeville Institute, and The American Freedom Union; “Is Political Separation in Our Future?” at the Abbeville Institute; “The Future of the American Republic—How Do We Survive?” at LewRockwell.com; “The End of America? Hope Amidst the Ruins,” at The Unz Review and Reckonin.com; “National Unity is A Mirage,” at the Abbeville Institute and The Unz Review; and “The Oncoming Second American Civil War,” at LewRockwell.com and The Unz Review.
Now, in a major contribution to this much-needed discussion, Chronicles Magazine, the paramount journalistic voice for traditional conservatism in America, certainly in print form, offers a critical symposium in its October 2023 issue, titled, “The Future of the American Union.”
Featured authors include: Michael Rectenwald (“The Two Nations”), William Lind (“When the Center Does Not Hold”), and David Azerrad (“Against the Black Pill”)—and most notably, Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried, whose detailed contribution, “The Future of the American Resistance,” frames the October issue.
I have written about Chronicles in the past, essentially praising its critical role in any future restoration (or recreation) of the old American republic, or, perhaps better, American republics, plural. Like any national publication with a variety of writers, there will occasionally be a piece with which I disagree; but overwhelmingly the magazine offers critical essays, reviews, and columns which should be required reading for anyone concerned by the Leftist venom which now seems destined to finally murder the Framers’ dream, imprison dissenters, destroy the nuclear family, pervert our children, and engage us in never-ending global war for unobtainable peace to establish some dystopian world “reset” worse than anything George Orwell envisaged in his classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
What is our future? What would happen if, indeed, somehow Donald Trump would manage to get past all the voter manipulation and outright dishonesty and win the 2024 election? Would there not be extreme violence, even rebellion in Blue States and in major cities? Would not states like California push harder for secession or separation?
Or, let’s suppose that the hysterical Leftist manipulators, the Deep State and their loathsome conservative/GOP collaborators, manage once again to pervert election laws and voter totals, and insure the re-election of the brain-dead puppet Joe Biden. Would those who witnessed this remain idle and simply let it happen—again?
Paul Gottfried’s essay (along with the other contributions), while diagnosing the pressing problem, also provides a potential solution. Certainly, it raises serious questions as well. But it should—it really must—be our point of departure as we sink deeper into the cesspool, the “slough of Despond,” from which there is no escape, only spiritual slavery to the powers of Darkness.
Here are Professor Gottfried’s final paragraphs which bring his essay to a close and suggest what concerned, “normal” Americans” should be considering:
The best solution, given the circumstances, is peaceful separation, a solution that can be undertaken in stages even if it cannot be achieved all at once. If Americans committed to opposing the tyrannical left can be induced to settle in common areas and if they can control local and regional administrations, then their living situation should be far from hopeless. The regime’s opponents will be in an optimal position to respond to unwelcome directives from the central state. They can simply avoid enforcing them. If this practice spreads to enough places, it will be hard for the administrative state to impose its unitary will without facing multiple challenges.
It may also be necessary for the survival of enclaves of resistance that the decision of those who choose to live under the regime be treated as irreversible, providing their decision has been reached without provable coercion. It would be foolish for those who opt for freedom to share their hard-won autonomy with those who have opted for the opposite side but who then decided to change their place of residence. Even more suicidal would be to extend full citizenship rights to those who took this step. There is no guarantee that those would-be neighbors would not be carrying with them the views and values of the place they left.
One should not confuse these hypothetical asylum seekers with former Communists who eventually fled Communist rule. Most of those refugees were staunch anti-Communists by the time they defected. Blue State residents who decide to move into Red States, by contrast, usually carry their leftist politics with them. There is no reason to think leftists will behave differently if they move into more conservative regions in the future. Regulating who settles in woke-free areas will be necessary to protect these outposts of freedom from infiltration. Therefore, any attempt by the central administration to tamper with this situation (probably by invoking the Fourteenth Amendment) must be doggedly opposed. (p.11)
Search out the October issue; better yet subscribe to Chronicles.
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A peaceful separation by choice and cooperation by states in the US is impractical to do like Bernard Shaw postulated about the way of life Jesus proclaimed.. What the US is facing is a bloody civil strife of sorts for justice by down-trodden, GOD-fearing Americans which, we all around the globe must hope and pray that it doesn’t lead to a major civil war in the US. Sad but true, the US from inception has been a nation that has a sword in one hand which today is the gun, and the Bible in the other and this has been a curse than a blessing. Religious and political persecution have always been the soft underbelly of the Union like in the case of the Mormons and the abolitionists. Weaker nations of the world have known pain as a result of mainly British/US imperialism and warmongering. Today their own are the ones facing the same peril they have unleashed upon others.
It is as if the Americans do not know about the reality of the collapse of the USSR and that it can happen to anyone including the US and Europe. Americans and the vassals are like a one eye boxer in the ring. He sees but doesn’t see everything that is coming his way…. Perilous times are ahead. As Gary Kasparov once said when former President Trump was being impeached..” the (American) system is in trouble”.
A peaceful separation by choice and cooperation by states in the US is impractical to do like Bernard Shaw postulated about the way of life Jesus proclaimed.. What the US is facing is a bloody civil strife of sorts for justice by down-trodden, GOD-fearing Americans which, we all around the globe must hope and pray that it doesn’t lead to a major civil war in the US. Sad but true, the US from inception has been a nation that has a sword in one hand which today is the gun, and the Bible in the other and this has been a curse than a blessing. Religious and political persecution have always been the soft underbelly of the Union like in the case of the Mormons and the abolitionists. Weaker nations of the world have known pain as a result of mainly British/US imperialism and warmongering. Today their own are the ones facing the same peril they have unleashed upon others.
It is as if the Americans do not know about the reality of the collapse of the USSR and that it can happen to anyone including the US and Europe. Americans and the vassals are like a one eye boxer in the ring. He sees but doesn’t see everything that is coming his way…. Perilous times are ahead. As Gary Kasparov once said when former President Trump was being impeached..” the (American) system is in trouble”.
Nuclear exchange between US-EU and Russia would certainly be appropriate retribution for the incredibly sharp pain these three groups have inflicted upon other nations over the past centuries. The term pain includes genocide, torture, piracy, theft of land and resources, slaughter and much more (including psychological hurts). It would also be the quickest way to eliminate earth parasites by irradiating the hosts they occupy.
The obvious rebuttal is: the divisions are much less geopolitical than sociopolitical.
There isn’t a lot of undliuted regional uniformity anymore. People don’t move for worldview as much as they just go where the jobs are. That, along with immigration of course, is why you can’t count on any given neighbor being any more sympathetic to your way of thinking than someone thousands of miles away.
There will be no “peaceful separation”. The best hope is the federal govt becomes too weak to enforce its edicts and states regain lost powers. There will always be a federal presence and people will always pretend it has more power than it actually does. I could see giant corporations form paramilitaries and build cities where their “employees” work and are protected from out-of-control crime, but no breakup of the Union. Not for 150 years at least,
American citizens are at a pivotal time in their history, they will have to show bravery and may have to go to war against the power that has amassed at the top of their society to forge a new future because the world will isolate the West, the world wants to develop and they don’t want the new cold war that the “elite” in Washington want.
Power is never given only taken, the Industrial and now the information empires built under protection and privilege won’t go quietly…but they must go forever to move forward.
The Americunt state’s actually showed the true colors of those “hopes and aspirations” as soon as the first definitions of what a “citizen” would be under the “free and democratic” first Washington regime. Didn’t even have to wait til the Monroe doctine was dictated. Honored fucktardation.
Indeed. The problem with Chronicles-type conservatives is they see everything as another Civil War. It’s like the Jews and their shabbos goyim see everything as WWII (“it’s 1938 again! The New Hitler! etc.)
New England types have always patted themselves on the back for how “moral” they are, and one example is slavery. Of course, they were some slaves in Mass. and elsewhere, and of course Yankees (and Jews, but I repeat myself) were involved in the trade; but the main reason no slavocracy developed in NE is geographic/climatic. The crops and farming methods suitable for, say, the rocky hills of Vermont made slavery impractical, while the opposite was true in the South.
Hence the slave/”free” (in quotes, because how “free” was a pre-union factory worker?) had a geographical basis. This is true even on the intra-state level: the hillbillies of western Virginia seceded to form the free state of West Virginia. And consider the free, confederated nation of Switzerland (which gave us the cuckoo clock) and other mountainous lands.
Geography is meaningless to today’s woke/based divide. Austin Tx is (or wants to be) just like NYC, while the rest of NYS is more like the Tx panhandle, etc.
What is likely to happen, if anything, is one ideological group taking over a region, or the whole country, and then ruthlessly purging or forcibly relocating the other population group. As Richard Spencer might say, “you can find that in a number of different places.” Consider the population transfers before, during and after WWII (the Second European Civil War), or Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Or, given the tribe our overlords belong to, Palestine.
Without the massive influxes of cash its state governments receive from Washington, the glorious new confederacy would probably not last a month. Nevertheless, this poor planet will not see peace until the imperial monstrosity that stole our republic has been appropriately neutralized. Some irony, that the world’s first successful rebellion against an imperial colonizing power became its most deadly colonial power – and for what? Survival, no, just more money for the sociopathic ruling class that discovered how to infect the American people with its passionate hatred of the American people.
Maybe a look in the mirror would be worth a thousand articles on migrants. Spending on war in Ukieland instead of helping alleviate poverty and blockading poor countries creates more migrants.
Mexican Prez called for a U.S. program “to remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries, an integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate.”
Good article. Trump in 24, and losing again. This is an interesting take to be sure. If he would win then I can see the usual suspects looting and torching again. This would give Trump a chance to correct his weakness from last time, law and order tweets don’t solve a damn thing.
I believe he pulls it off than he absolutely must do what needs to be done, starting with illegals. They all must go back, day one. It can be done, Ike deported tons of them in the 50’s. If Trump actually had the balls to do it, many of them would self deport anyway as there would be nothing here for them.
I could type all day long and still not have enough time to discuss everything that needs to be done. If you’re a regular Unz reader then I’m preaching to the choir anyway.
I know a lot of people here hate Trump, well looking back would you rather have him or Brandon today? I think it was very obvious what would happen when Brandon was installed. Everything he said he would do, he’s done. Trump was no saint and clearly made horrible cabinet picks, of course there was the elephant in the room, those good friends of his in Israel and his Platinum Plan. No one needs to remind me for damn sure.
With that, I think at this point a vote for him is another round 2 of the middle finger to the deepstate, establishment, Israel, Soros or the richest fuckers on the planet, Rothchild’s. Pick your poison.
Trump will get the nomination, that is clear. He’s blowing the clown show out as of today. They’re all the same. Question is this, will he be allowed to win this time? There is no way in hell Brandon can beat him, or any of the shithead commies they put in to run. Even the WaPo poll has Trump ten points ahead of Joe. I believe it. So what happens if he wins by 10PM and we wake up at 6 AM to see Brandon win?
Anyone who wins and anyone who want’s to solve the problems in this country must be willing to become a dictator, for lack of a better word here. A dictator for a while anyway. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like Trump, this is it, as Carlin said, this is the best we have to offer. Only rich people get to run, rational people usually aren’t mega rich lunatics so where does that leave us? Trump.
Just speculating here of course, I think the reality is this. The country will have to go to a complete 2nd world shit hole, everywhere before anything happens. Many cities are already there today, however as of this writing there are still plenty of places to escape too. With the rate were importing browns that won’t be much longer.
If the White lash ever comes it will be brutal, it seems more and more Whites are waking up daily. But not fast enough. I’m not sure who I loathe more, the leftist SJW or cuckservative Whites. They’re all my enemy as they’re both guilty of importing browns. Browns who are controlled by Joos who want us all dead. We’re all the same, both sides say, no we’re not, assholes.
Strange , I’ve never met a Nazi or a White supremacist in my life, if I was going to I would have as I live in an area where they’re supposed to be everywhere. I have met some black supremacist though, every black I’ve ever met believe they are the chosen ones, problem is YT done stole it all. Or so I’m told.
Great post, I agree with all of your points. I’m just wishing that Trump were even half of what we’d like. BtW the Second World was the Communist Bloc. We’re headed straight to Third World status.
Divide the country, and you have given safe refuge to the tens of millions who hate us. Were we bothering them in New York City and Los Angeles? Could they not keep their noses out of our doings in flyover country? The Reds will never leave us alone.
-Discard