It is 2034; the white-led Allied States of America, west of the Mississippi, and the United States, east of the River, are on the verge of war. Aztlan , once America’s Southwest, has already broken off after an uprising of the Hispanic majority couldn’t resist the tug of Mexico.
Most people are shocked at hearing such a dismal portrayal of the future of America. Even considering our national debt and divisive politics, they cannot imagine future events that would tumble the dominoes needed to allow such a world of unintended consequences. However, the refusal to look where our nation is heading will be the first domino to fall.
2034, The Story of Three Americas is a futuristic Gone With The Wind prediction about the aspirations of a people so different, so polarized by race and economics and politics that war becomes inevitable. It is a warning shot across America’s bow. It shows us what our children and grandchildren might find waiting for them after they plummet down the U.S. Mountain of Debt.
2034 is also about how America is not immune from Hitleresque tyrants with simplistic solutions when times get tough. It is about a fractured nation staggered by the realization that Americans weren’t special after all, weren’t immune from the immutable forces of history It is about how freedom is as important as the air we breathe once we lose it. But most of all it is about hope that out of the ashes of our hubris, we will rediscover the aspirations of our Founding Fathers.
It is now 2034, 15 years after a cruel Depression resulted in Americans being at each other’s throats after government safety nets shredded and international creditors demanded payment of loans. After bottomless suffering for 10-years, white Americans—aging and only 50% of the population—rebel against the government. A revolution results in a white-only Allied States of America (ASA) being formed west of the Mississippi. In ASA, whites got what they said they wanted: the English language, a DMZ-protected fence, harsh justice, strict Constitutional interpretation, full throttled capitalism, repression of homosexuals and racial purity. However, its citizens wake up to realize they exchanged all this for their freedom. Although Aztlan (Spanish for the American Southwest) initially is part of ASA, it reverts back to Mexico after an uprising of the Hispanic majority. The third country also got the socialism it said it wanted. However it becomes an impoverished melting pot of blacks, Muslims, foreigners, homosexuals and poor whites. Still called the United States of America, it lies east of the Mississippi. Although morally decadent and militarily weak, it still holds onto a politically-corrupt democracy.
The story unfolds through the eyes of characters in each of the three fractured countries. Regardless of the reader’s race or ethnicity, he is able to identify with at least one character, empathize with their aspirations and suffer from their conditions in life. Very few will finish the book without knowing we, as Americans, must do everything in our power to ensure this future never happens.
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