Why Donald Trump Is So Popular

   The first important man to decide that the United States was a nation was Abraham Lincoln. In his inaugural address of 1861, he said the Federal Government in Washington in the District of Columbia was a “national” government. He won the Civil War and since then there has been no stopping the rush to find a “nation” where none can possibly exist. The central government of the “nation” has the right to function only in a district located in no state and thus it would be if it were  not impossible the government of the “nation” without being itself a state. None of the 50 states can be “nations” since none of them have full sovereignty. A nation can not  give up full sovereignty and be a nation and a government like the one in Washington that was not granted full sovereignty by the American Constitution can not be either a state or a nation. But Lincoln won the Civil War and gangs of historians not only concluded that all the many peoples who ever settled in “America” , a place that can not be located on any map of the world, were “Americans” but also that “America” was, going back hundreds of years, a “nation”. Some English settlers from Holland who settled in 1620 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a speck on the North American continent 5000 miles from another part of the “nation” on the Hawaiian Islands,  were “Americans” who founded the “nation”. Many other “Americans” coming from various locations from all over the world, settling all over a non-existent place called “America”, also were latter-day founders of the “nation”. Let’s not quibble over the details of how the “nation” came to be because it never came to be as a reality. Let’s just agree that every day on the public media when reporters call the totality of our complex political system a “nation”, they are just reiterating what our historians have been telling us for  years, that we are a “nation”.

   The concept of a “nation” is one good means of uniting the hundreds of different peoples living in the United States. But if you believe as do I that the devoted loyalty of the peoples of the fifty states of our union to the government in Washington DC is not only worthwhile but also essential to our unity and the unity of all the states of the globe, what can be worse than people who have been told for generations that they live in a “nation” taking their teachers seriously? What if Americans really believe they live in a nation and a presidential candidate comes along like Donald Trump whose bombastic rhetoric and notions reveal he believes also that he lives in a nation and intends to rule our union of states if elected as a nation? This would be Gotterdamerung. This would be the fall of Stalingrad to Hitler’s army in 1943. This would be the end of democratic worldwide civilization. Without the government in Washington uniting with its laws and policies and its power not only the 50 united states but also the states of the world and the world economy, there will be no world as we know it. We Americans created Washington but it doesn’t belong to just us anymore. It also belongs to the world. It is the guts of the world and without it continuing to function as both a federal American government and as a world government we will have no world. Donald Trump wants to make the United States a great nation. They can never be a nation and if they try to become one they will destroy their own unity and the precarious unity of the world. Many Americans now see a chance to really live in a nation like everyone else in the world. That is why Donald Trump is so popular.That is why his election would be a disaster.

Daniel McNeill

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Failed States Made Secure

Clearly there are now states who cannot control their borders and without this power they can never be sovereign states and certainly not democratic states. Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from this condition and it was caused mainly by the United States. Can the fox who ravaged the chicken coop ever make the coop safe? It seems impossible yet the United States government alone in the past has been successful creating states with secure borders and forcing by law state governments to govern themselves democratically and without corruption. The great European nations lack a political system capable of making a state like Syria secure except as a colony ruled from London or Paris or Moscow. The government in Washington DC does not rule any of the American states and it is itself not a state. If Syria became the fifty-first American state, then Russia, Israel, Turkey and France would either retreat beyond Syria’s borders or else be blown away by the American military. Syria would be a sovereign state again with two governments, one in Washington and one in Damascus, and its political leaders in both governments would have to be elected democratically by Syrian citizens. Once elected, if they acted tyrannically or corruptly, they would be tried in court and put in jail for violating Federal laws by the Federal Department of Justice. Every state in the world can possibly lose control of its borders. They all need a world central government with just enough sovereign power to back them up militarily and judicially.
Daniel McNeill

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Imperium and Libertas

   We know the day the disaster happened.  Romulus killed his twin brother Remus and founded Rome on April 21, 753 BC. Imperium does not allow power to be shared ever. Imperium is total power to do anything at all to anyone and anything. Imperium gave Romulus the power to kill anyone who threatened his new community and since every other community eventually threatened it, he killed with his army anyone who took up arms against him exercising for the defense of a community an enemy imperium. He then allowed conquered communities to live without libertas in peace as long as they accepted that Rome possessed imperium over them. The Roman father had imperium over his family. He could kill anyone within it at will legally without punishment. Peoples before Rome lived with libertas in tribes all over what later became Europe as well as in North Africa and the Near East. Under Rome they lived in a huge community where no one had a separate community with local imperium. One universal community now existed and the Senate in Rome plus the Roman people, SPQR, ( senatus populusque romanus)  alone had imperium.

   It is incorrect to describe Rome as an empire even though the word “empire” derives semantically from imperium. It was a huge nation governed at the top in Rome by a group of men, the Senate, and later by one man, the emperor. European nations developed as did Rome. A strong tribe conquered neighboring tribes and expanded the imperium of a king until a large community of conquered tribes emerged behind fixed borders. Rome united its gigantic nation (which was not as large as the present nations of Brazil, Canada, Russia) by spreading the use of Latin as well as Greek as the national languages although only Latin was official. European nations did the same. They united tribes in their domain speaking many languages by making one language common and official. Rome could have expanded further but it restrained itself and built walls and fortifications at what it called the limes which gives us the word “limit”. European nations were smaller nations than was Rome and they were congregated beside one another or near one another, all with  governments with full imperium. Another disaster. Not just the disaster of a large community with one government at Rome with imperium over all its peoples. Several communities, nations jumbled together with the power in a central government to do anything at all to any of its citizens and always ready with a national army to make war on enemy neighboring nations. A disastrous state of affairs. The disaster that Romulus created expanded and split into several warring parts. A universal disaster.

   The disaster was well known in the late 18th century when Americans and some Europeans met in Philadelphia to create the government of a union of states. The British like the Romans were out to have imperium over as much of the globe as possible. British imperium imposing taxes on Americans by a tax on tea caused the Tea Party in Boston in 1773. The British tea chests Bostonians dumped in their harbor were, so to speak, the British imperium. But how to get rid of not only British imperium, but all imperium? How could imperium once and for all, so to speak, be dumped overboard and be forever gone from the American part of the North American continent, dumped once and for all in the ocean, defeated, expelled legally from all American governments, gone forever with its disastrous warlike corpus bloated with exclusive power? They had to create a central government with some sovereign powers and at the same time strip it forever legally of full sovereign power. They had to assure a human face, devoted not to imperium but to libertas, on the new central government that history’s so many disasters based on imperium was amazingly now allowing them to bring to life by a Constitution.

   Most of the people in the more than 200  nations on the globe, formed in the same disastrous mode as Rome and the nations of Europe, do not believe that the government in Washington in the District of Columbia, which unites 50 American states and tries to promote with its great military and financial power peace and democracy for all the nations of the globe, is the only central government in the world that legally under the Constitution does not have imperium. But it is true. The founding fathers of America took away from Washington imperium and gave it only enough power to create for its citizens libertas.

Daniel McNeill
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An Occidental State in a Non-occidental Region

   Some states in the occidental block of states (Western Europe, North America,Australia,New Zealand) have colonized other regions but they have never set up a state in the non-occidental world. Why not? The enemies of the occidental way of life are out to set up as many states as they can and create within them a simplistic and reactionary economic and political system. How can we in the Occident set up a progressive state where non-occidental people can experience our way of life? We should all encourage states, preferably poor states, to petition the American Congress to become the fifty-first American state. Let’s say state X in Africa joins the American union. Immediately it would have its borders protected like any American state by the American military. Its currency would become the dollar and its banks, if they wished, could join the highly sophisticated American Federal Reserve banking system. If located in Africa, the state would have the most secure economy for foreign investment on the continent. It could be the focus point where a coalition of states worldwide opposed to the non-occidental way of life could become active supporting the revolutionary new initiative at various levels. Business investments from citizens of states all over the globe could flow with complete security into the new American state. American citizens could legally live and work there with full political rights as well as the thousands of new immigrants who are regularly becoming American citizens. Citizens in state X would send elected representatives to the American Senate and House of Representatives in Washington DC, vote for a President, and have the right to live and work in any of 51 states  with full political rights. A new state would give up some of its sovereignty but would gain full representation in a second democratic government in Washington and a revolutionary new occidental transformation of its economy.

Daniel McNeill

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Donald Trump and the Curse of Full Sovereignty

   Any nation in the world has the right to keep beyond its borders any group that its leaders perceive as a mortal threat to its citizens. It is hypocritical for anyone not a United States citizen to criticize Donald Trump. Trump’s proposed action excluding people forcefully from the US is wrong because the US is not a nation and it is time for him and every other American to face the fact and to live up morally and politically to what it means. We live in a society of thousands of governments, town and city, county, state and federal and none of them have fully sovereign power. We Americans have never ever lived in a nation under a sovereign government. The founding fathers who wrote our Constitution in the 18th century decided for us once and for all that we could never become a nation because they divided up and split apart sovereign power and took away any hope we might have had of forming a nation with one government possessing by law fully sovereign power. The Constitution was designed to allow us to freely and easily expand our union of 13 states by admitting states. We admitted 37 more states and because none of them by law were fully sovereign and because the part of the Federal Government, the Congress, that had the power to admit them was not fully sovereign, we expanded enormously the most radical and the most revolutionary political system ever devised by men for the good of humanity. All humanity! All humanity. Donald Trump can gain and can exercise some important sovereign powers as President. He should use the great power of the presidency to convince states around the world that it is in their interest and in Americans’ interest that they join our union of states as new states rather than wasting his time trying to exclude citizens of foreign states who want to live freely in our union of states and escape from living under the curse of full state sovereignty.

Daniel McNeill

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In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

A New Kind of World War

   The last  two world wars were about protecting states from penetration by foreign armies. Even in peacetime, borders of states in the past were protected by customs officials and by tariffs from the entrance of foreign goods and peoples. Peoples are now leaving states because of military attacks from within and because of failed attempts to create conditions for prosperity by walking across borders to states where they can live and work in peace with political freedom.. At the same time, terrorists are crossing the borders of powerful  and wealthy states and murdering citizens with modern arms and explosives made easily available by postmodern global internet communications and technologies. No system is now in place worldwide to help make states safer from bloody internal attacks. Even a powerful state like France. attacked brutally from within, is seeking help from other states to aid its search for safety within its borders. A permanent aid available to  all states from outside their borders is necessary for the internal safety and prosperity of their citizens in the new kind of world war now being fought.

  States as they now exist must continue to exist because it is only within a state, whether as an immigrant or a native, that people can develop themselves freely to their full human potential. I propose as a model for states seeking internal safety and prosperity my state, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 sovereign states of the United States. It ratified the American Constitution in 1790 that outlines the sovereign powers granted by it and 12 other independent states to the Federal Government now located between the states of Maryland and Virginia in a district not located in any state called The District of Columbia. My state gave up absolutely its sovereign power to make war and to conduct diplomacy but it gave up absolutely no other sovereign power. It has been governed democratically for 225 years and has prospered greatly because democracy is the form of government that the American Constitution orders the government in Washington to assure to every state of our union (Article IV, Section 4). Gangsters and corrupt politicians  prey on every state government globally but those who prey on my state are taken to trial and put in jail by a power beyond our state borders, the Federal Department of Justice in Washington DC. I am free to cross state borders at will and to live and work in any of the 49 other states of our union with the same political rights I enjoy in Massachusetts. I have two citizenships, one federal, one state, two judicial systems, one federal, one state, two democratic governments that I send representatives to, one federal, one state, two police systems, one federal, one state. My state government in Boston does 90 percent of government business in Massachusetts, my government in Washington about 10 percent. A modern independent state facing new types of dangers from within should consider giving up a portion of its sovereignty and allow a powerful foreign agency to reinforce its police, judicial and financial institutions with the police, judicial and financial institutions of a central government like the one in Washington in the District of Columbia that is not a state and is not located in any state.

  To fight the new kind of world war that the enemies of civilized societies have declared, states must unite to remain secure states. The model of the United States  is the only good working model we have for a future worldwide union of states. The American union can easily expand to transform itself to a united states of the world because the American Constitution gives Congress the power to admit new states (Article IV, Section 3).

Daniel McNeill

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