Loyalty To Washington

   If we Americans live in a nation that already existed way back in the times of the 17th century New England puritans (as our history books say), then we would certainly have revolted by words and actions against the Supreme Court’s decision that giving unlimited money to politicians is a form of free speech. The seat of our nation, if it existed, would be the government in Washington and the Supreme Court would have eliminated representation in the national government for citizens seeking support for their ordinary, everyday interests. This would be intolerable in any democratic nation anywhere and the Supreme Court has simply driven home to us the point that we never were a nation, that we are not one now, that we are instead a union of fifty states unified by a central government that also makes it its business to use its power to unify globally all the other states in the world. Washington is the new Rome. That is the Supreme Court’s message. The laws that our elected representatives in Congress pass are primarily based on the needs of both American and foreign corporations for their operations both in America and worldwide. However these market-oriented actions by our congressmen and senators paid richly by lobbyists representing rich interests are also in our vital interest. We Americans cannot and should not stop Washington from supporting with its many institutions and its enormous diplomatic and military power global economic and political development. We know it is in our vital economic interest that everyone in the world develop economically because our own continued development is an integral part of the process. The Supreme Court is right. Washington is the new Rome. Without it there would be no global economy and we along with everyone else in the world would be threatened by economic chaos. Money paid to Washington politicians is a form of free speech. We must be loyal to Washington not because it is the head of a nation but because it is the head of the world. What it does with the trillions of dollars it spends worldwide is a noble revolutionary form of free speech and we should help it any way we can to keep it talking loudly.

Daniel McNeill