[ WP ] `` America has fallen . ''

The man stood before the cameras as he cleared his throat and the crews babbled in technical jargon, he was confident. 
 
 He was not always the well groomed and eloquent man ready to address millions. He had grown up in extreme poverty, his father was nowhere to be found and his mother's profession was nothing he was proud of. His evenings were spent reminiscing about this upbringing. His peers had become hard men working long hours on farms, as mechanics, or in mines; they had become hard but simple men. The young man before the podium had become a hard but manipulative man. 
 
 The nation he was raised in had known much turmoil: famine, poverty, civil unrest, political corruption, and economic failure. He grew up far from the urban centers which these problems plagued, but he grew up watching them on television. As an adolescent he watched the cracks begin to appear. 
 
 His intelligence far outstripped what he let his teachers believe and in college he shocked his peers with the feats a simple farm boy was managing. Success became his constant companion. He rose quickly in the political world but never garnered nation wide support. He was a radical, condemned for years by the opposition. 
 
 He spent years on the political fringe; his nation, she continued to deteriorate. His deep patriotism only grew. His charisma and simple upbringing began to win support in an ever declining world. Finally he was thrust onto the largest stage, but that was not his finish line. 
 
 The press gave their countdown, his address could finally begin. His life had been spent in preparation for this moment. 
 
 `` My countrymen a new age has dawned upon us. We have been granted an opportunity to regain our glory.'' 
 
 He paused allowing the applause to die. 
 
 `` America has fallen.'' 
 
 The crowd gave no response. He too his cue. 
 
 `` The tumor that was the rest of our nation has been removed. The secessionist movement has been heard!'' 
 
 The crowd erupted at the sound of his treasons. The newly elected President of the loose confederacy continued his first address. The history he invoked meant almost nothing to the man and certainly had no application to the fledgling State's policies. The America as a whole would not survive but the Southeast had been an economic power house for decades. The passion of the man would lead them into a new era, a prosperous era.
