America as an Economic Zone

This reframes the United States not primarily as a nation‑state defined by a creed or ethnicity but as a contiguous economic sphere whose main institutions and cultural signals are organized around commerce and market coordination. Treating 'America' as an economic zone focuses attention on trade patterns, regulatory chokepoints, corporate power, and how political rhetoric serves commercial functions. — If adopted, this framing shifts debates about identity, policy priorities, and governance toward questions of market structure, trade chokepoints, and who benefits from the commercial ordering of society.