Academic

Worried About 2009?

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

You really need to worry about 2010, according to Russian academic Igor Panarin:

He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

Just so you are ready, the new map will look like this:

A word of advice for my friends in the Atlantic states: before you haul off and join the European Union, you should know that one of Professor Panarin's intellectual models -- French political scientist Emmanuel Todd, who in 1976 predicted the downfall of the Soviet Union -- recently predicted the reversion of Europe to "ethnic scapegoating and dictatorship."

Full post as published by Conglomerate on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).