At the beginning of the American Civil War, aging Union General-In-Chief Winfield Scott proposed what he called the “Anaconda Plan” as a mechanism to end the rebellion of the southern states by creating a total blockade of the southern ports and so prevent the Confederacy from exporting it’s main crop, cotton, and importing the necessary war materials to prosecute it’s secession from the Union. It was basically a bloodless plan, and if allowed to be put in place and enforced, might have prevented the killing fields which became so prevalent in that horrible conflict. Unfortunately, President Lincoln listened to other council, which predicted a swift military victory against the Confederate forces, and resulted in nearly five years of bloody conflict instead.
In a strange way, the proponents of the so-called “Liberal-Progressive” ideology have adapted a similar strategy to transform our country into the socialist nirvana that they so fervently desire. On both coasts, from Maine to Florida in the east, with the exception of South Carolina and Georgia, and California to Washington state in the west, they have steadily gained political power. Their Anaconda Plan also includes many of the states on our northern border, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Only the Gulf states, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, along with the aforementioned South Carolina and Georgia, have resisted their efforts so far. Even “Cowboy Conservative” states like Colorado and Montana have begun to go over to the “Dark Side” because of influxes of east and west coast liberals into the heartland.