"The last job of capitalism – having won all the battles against labour, having acquired the ultimate authority, almost the ultimate moral authority over what's a good idea or what's not, or what's valued and what's not – the last journey for capital in my country has been to buy the electoral process, the one venue for reform that remained to Americans."
This is from David Simon, creator of The Wire, and is part of an impromptu speech he delivered in Sidney.
His thesis is that there are 2 Americas, and one of them is not connected to the American way of life. In "The Phoenix Nation" I depict the US as divided geographically as well as socially. In my version of the future, the part of America we call "The Bible Belt" splits from "The Atlantic States of America" and become "Christ's Kingdom of America". A third nation is Spanish speaking.
If America were to break up into smaller nations it seems probable that California would separate too. A geographical split would not of itself deal with the two nations in Simon's piece, but the whole process would be revolutionary and it seems unlikely that there would be a place for the dominance of wealth and capital in smaller, less powerful nations.
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