The Big Split

"WHAT'S AROUND THE BEND FOR THE USA?" No doubt about it, the U.S. is pulling apart at the seams. Just where are we heading? Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and Edgar Award finalist John Lantigua takes the rancor, incivility, flagrant mendacity and shamelessness of recent U.S. politics and creates a roadmap for the near future, way out in front of CNN, FOX News and MSNBC In The Big Split, a collection of political extremists and venal...
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"WHAT'S AROUND THE BEND FOR THE USA?"

No doubt about it, the U.S. is pulling apart at the seams. Just where are we heading?

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and Edgar Award finalist John Lantigua takes the rancor, incivility, flagrant mendacity and shamelessness of recent U.S. politics and creates a roadmap for the near future, way out in front of CNN, FOX News and MSNBC

In The Big Split, a collection of political extremists and venal schemers attempts to carve the U.S. into two distinct nations and cash in politically and economically along the way. The political vitriol has grown so extreme that people of differing ideologies can't stand the thought of each other anymore, let alone live among each other. A mass political migration is underway. From now on states will be either all blue or all red. Gun owners, who want to tote their AR-15s openly in the supermarket or hair salon, head one way. Those not armed to the teeth flee in the opposite direction. Have an opinion on abortion, immigration, stem cell research, creationism? You better head for friendly ground before the other side finds out.

Real estate mogul Schuyler LaScala, the brains behind the Mass Migration, decrees "from now on there will be right-wing potato chip companies and left-wing potato chip companies. Liberal gynecologists and hog callers will migrate in one direction; conservative pastry chefs and safecrackers in the other." Will there ever again be ballet in Idaho? Who knows?

For those "underwater" on their mortgages, real estate exchanges are created. Whole families simply swap properties with their political antagonists, without having to exchange even a word with them. Some dream of The New Confederacy and even of a Second Civil War. Some drive east, some drive west and they all drive through the cuckoo's nest.

And if you think this novel is around the bend, brothers and sisters, so is the future!!

For fans of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, Terry Southern's The Magic Christian, and Christopher Buckley's Thank You for Smoking.

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