Why Hillary Clinton?

     Anyone from anywhere with money can buy power in Congress and the power our elected representatives have is marginal unless they use it making laws that aid big business. When the Supreme Court ruled that donating unlimited money to influence politicians was a form of free speech, that was the end of a certain America. In the new America we can no longer believe that Congress is structured to respond politically to the needs of the average American. Hillary Clinton is the presidential candidate with the political experience and the intelligence necessary to try to forge a new identity for Americans in new radically changed political circumstances.

   This identity can never be authentic unless it relates directly to the foreign policy of our government. What is radically new is that we face on the one hand the scourge of terrorism and on the other hand huge super nations, China, the German-led European Union, Russia, Japan. Brasil, Mexico and India. In the next 8 years the seven will be prowling all over the globe seeking opportunities for profits by using advanced technologies ever becoming more advanced. Seven blocks of economic power are beside us in the world and yet we must still use at least 590 billion dollars of our national wealth every year to keep the world safe for economic development.

   Sixty years ago when we were the most advanced economy in the world it made sense to use our wealth and power to police the world so that undeveloped and poorer states could develop economically as democracies. Now we continue with this foreign policy unchanged even though we have succeeded and states using our technologies have advanced in many cases as extensively as ourselves. On the one hand, we must continue policing the world because not doing it would provoke a worldwide disaster comparable in ancient history to the fall of the Roman Empire. On the other hand, we possess the political structure that if used intelligently can give Americans the new identity they need and can give the world the advanced political structure that it needs. We alone have succeeded in creating a highly sophisticated union of fifty states. The new identity for Americans should be as members of a union of states and the structure of our union should be extended worldwide by inviting all states in the world to become states of our union. Most candidates for president hide behind nationalistic slogans promising to make America a richer, more powerful nation. This is hogwash. We have been a de facto world government since the end of the Second World War. We must continue to be a world government and the only rational and good way to do this is by making Washington de jure the central government of a world union of states. No one but Hillary Clinton possesses the intelligence, the experience and the heart to begin to make a new identity for Americans and a new necessary identity for the world possible.

Daniel McNeill