A Scary Future for America
I first read about this over a year ago. The right-wing “plan” to force a Constitutional Convention to change the US Constitution to reflect conservative values. Today in my email there was my daily The Guardian news update. This is probably the best written article about this “plot” I’ve seen. Everyone should read it and share it. This is how the minority will try to seize control. The article even quotes Christian fanatic Rick Santorum saying “We have the opportunity, as a result, to have a supermajority, even though we may not even be in an absolute majority when it comes to the people who agree with us.” . They currently control 30 of the 34 states required to do this. “WE THE PEOPLE” won’t exist, it’ll be the minority fascists controlling everything. If this happens America is over.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/19/steve-bannon-us-constitution-tea-party-republican-state-legislatures?utm_term=634fdfbc66c94ed9a7cd54480c59ec8f&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
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I think it'll break down roughly by watershed and trading blocs (megaregions), and not necessarily even follow existing borders.
This is the megaregion map for the US, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis#North_America), showing regions where there's a strong interconnection of communication, trade, and culture.
You'd see alliances, of course. The Cascadian, NoCal, and SoCal regions are generally natural allies - all Pacific coastal states with strong Hispanic and Asian ties and a shared history of colonization. The Acela corridor in the Northeast echoes the original Northern Colonial states in the US. The Inland Sea (Great Lakes) reaches into the Windsor/Montreal/Toronto corridor in Canada. The Florida peninsula is its own country - it always has been. The Piedmont area is the Heart of Dixie. Some places, like Pennsylvania or Texas, have two such corridors and almost certainly would be split down the middle.
Outside of these, you'd get the aforementioned American Redoubt - places where any megaregions' influence wanes significantly. A big part of the urban/rural divide in American politics is that historical political divisions were driven by colonization factors that had little to do with population or geography. Most of the Rockies are only marginally habitable, for instance, which is how Wyoming, with a population of 500,000, has far more political clout than the city of Seattle (2 million people), much less of Cascadia (17 million).
This is what I don't think most hard-core MAGA understand. They have political clout only due to a historical accident. If North America were to realign along megaregions (which is, I believe, the likely consequence of a civil war), their political clout would disappear entirely.
