Greetings from Dearborn MI

Past is just a prologue. Seeds of American Civil War were laid during the Revolution itself. Civil War was the worst of times. Tenth of military age died during it, never since.

Civil Wars renew social contracts. American Founding Fathers were agrarian slave owners. Within 4 generations their Constitution was already out of date as the rapidly industrializing North needed cheap labour free from land. The Civil War was between Washington and Lincoln that the latter won.

As China leads Globalization and Free Trade integrating the world breaking borders, America is still mired in land based Agrarian Slave Owning age Constitution modified by 26 Amendments. But there comes a time when dress is so worn out than no amount of stitches suffice.

America needs a new Social Contract aligned with the emerging world order. China and Mexico hating Trump is the New South. But my last 20 years on East and West fail to locate where is the New North with the New Lincoln?