Second Mortgage: A Short History of the United States

The United States has never existed as a unified country but was only partly cohesive. The Southern States insisted on slavery and then segregation. Religionists in the South mortgaged their souls in support of their racist institutions which were kept up through overt and covert acts of intimidation with religious justification just like the Taliban.

What are thought of as American values existed institutionally only in the North, to say nothing of constitutionally legitimate government. Finally compelled to desegregate, the forces of racial subjugation regrouped and kept the hope of racist government alive. Republicans then mortgaged their souls en-masse in what is known as the Southern Strategy.

A second mortgage, on the whole country. Racist, classist, and property and privilege-based government was reestablished nationwide through a Southern voting bloc. Instinctive authoritarians and others with the usual dreams of unlimited power, wealth and world domination were drawn in. The constitutional version of the country failed.

It ceased to exist. This is the short history of the United States capturing the forces that have determined its fate.