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The most liberal nation on the face of the Earth means nothing if that same freedom will allow the degradation of moral and spiritual values in our society. The world’s richest country is worthless if it could not teach the next generation what to do with that wealth. And the world’s last super power will be a danger to itself if it does not protect its future.

Introduction, America's Greatest Challenge: Succession and Continuity, by Seph Bay

America's Greatest Challenge: Succession and Continuity

By Seph Bay

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June 30, 2088.

The states of Texas, Louisiana, Nevada, are bought by Mexico for $2 trillion.

(The United States finished construction of the WALL against Mexican and South American illegal immigration in 2032. America’s neighbors to the south, rich in natural resources, unified its economic and political efforts soon thereafter. By 2060, the over-protected and highly-isolated US economy was in deep depression and lost its edge in technological dynamism and innovation. Immigrants from America tried to head south to look for better jobs and opportunities. The WALL stops them).

July 1, 2088.

The United States House of Representatives and the Senate hold an emergency joint session. There is a stalemate within the legislature whether to allow the secession of some states for financial and monetary reasons. The incumbent American president, whose leadership was weak and without vision, and coming from one of the secessionist states does nothing to counter the passage of law. The president’s numerous business interests would gain most from this newly-won independence.

July 2, 2088.

The US Armed Forces, whose members are mostly coming from the newly-declarded-independent states, refuse to impose military take-over. No legitimacy of the Constitution is questioned, and another Civil War to save the United States is not necessary. Each state recalls its population and creates their own armed forces.

July 3, 2088.

Russia is the first to recognize the new states. Several European, Asian, and South American countries, directly trading with them, brought about by free trade as a consequence of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, NAFTA, and other South American economic treaties, follow suit.

July 4, 2008.

Mass media, dominated by gay and lesbian managers and executives, and their inability to understand foreign policy and the significance of political unity (after decades of being shunned by organized religion, political parties, and economic forums), focuses on the marketability, popularity and mass appeal of the secessionist states.

The gist of this scenario is this:

What was once the world’s biggest military superpower, the largest economy on the planet, the greatest experiment of democracy and free-market capitalism, and the nation with the highest concentration of knowledge in the modern world, has seized to exist.

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