Off The Grid

I'm so tired of people conflating nation with country and state. I understand that this is inevitably what happens when people talk about politics and conflate these terms for the sake of brevity, but it creates problems that lead to an unimaginative, one dimensional understanding and poor predictions. America is a nation (a people), the USA is a country (the physical territory historically associated with the nation/state) and the US government is the state: that's three critically different things. I believe that America will survive in some form, perhaps under a different name and in a fraction of its former territory, whereas the USA and its current government will likely not survive. The fall of the USA will not be the physical end of America as a nation, just the end of the USA as state — perhaps the former Americans (plus Canadians) will call themselves the Diags from Diagolon, it's a joke for now, but who knows! European nations survived the fall of the Roman Empire, Islamic invasions and the Black Plague; inevitably, territory changed hands, and ethnic groups got reshuffled and rebranded, that's just history. As in the old world so will it be in the new world. America will likely be rebranded, but it will be something that can trace its heritage back to the British colonies.

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