A New Worldwide Balance

  It was only when the United States became a de facto world government that it was necessary to consider it a nation. After their victory in the Civil War, the Radical Republicans did their utmost to give Washington more power by amending the Constitution and adding power to the central government by anti-state Supreme Court decisions. But throughout the 19rh century and the beginning of the 20th century, Washington had plenty of power to run the union and there was no compelling necessity to build up in Americans’ minds the idea that they lived in a nation. When President Wilson declared war on Germany in 1918 and entered the First World War, it became necessary for a united war effort to promote the idea of a nation. “It is not an army that we must train and shape for war,” Wilson wrote in his draft proclamation. “It is a nation.” From outside the United States, from the point of view of foreign nations, the United States is a nation because it has full sovereign power under the Constitution to alone exercise the military and diplomatic powers of our union. Any military man fighting for the US abroad comes from and represents a nation but inside the US it has always been difficult for Americans to renounce completely the reality of living in one state of a union of many states. But Washington went far beyond a national role and took on an international identity in the Cold War. It was forced to export its corporations and interfere worldwide in nations to make them democratic and capitalistic. It could not promote globally the idea that a nation should be free and democratic if it did not appear to be also a nation.

   Now that Washington has won its struggle to unify the nations of the world under its leadership, it is tragic that it can not accept what it is, a central government of a union of states, and not learn that its destiny will never be complete until it transforms the worldwide union of states that it leads to a de jure union of states with itself remaining the union’s duly constituted central government. Why is it difficult to see Washington, which is not a state government and is not located in a state, as the central government of a worldwide union of states when it is already accepted universally as providing global leadership that the world’s states can not do without? To create the world of the future, a new worldwide balance is necessary. We Americans are out of balance because we have been taught falsely in our schools for almost three generations that we live in a nation. The peoples of the world can not remain at peace  and prosper in a global economy without Washington’s power aiding them and they will remain politically and economically unbalanced until their states join Washington’s union of states and help direct its power to good ends.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A comedy about finding your true identity.

Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.