© Andrew Nicla
What do the three sovereigns see when they examine the dystopia that took over Exceptionalistan?
They see, once again, three - discombobulated - nodes in conflict: the post-historic Pacific and Atlantic coasts; the South - a sort of expanded Dixieland; and the Midwest - what would be the American heartland.
The hyper-modern Pacific-Atlantic nodes congregate high-tech and finance, profit from Pentagon techno-breakthroughs and benefit from the "America rules the waves" ethos that guarantees the global primacy of the U.S. dollar.
The rest of America is largely considered by the Pacific-Atlantic as just a collection of flyover states: the South - which regards itself as the real, authentic America; and the Midwest, largely disciplined and quite practical-minded, squeezed ideologically between the littoral powerhouses and the South.
Superstructure, though, is key: no matter what happens, whatever the fractures, this remains an Empire, where only a tiny elite, a de facto plutocratic oligarchy, rules.
Comment: One of the biggest political lies ever to grace Washington is being exposed piece by piece by ugly and deceitful piece: