Clintsandism

   Clintsandism preaches a doctrine that every American already knows to be true in his/her heart. We are doomed politically to failure unless we address our democratic hopes for public improvements to two governments. We all know that what Clinton promises and Sanders promises can not be delivered by the government in Washington. Clinton as president can never get us the whole pie but she can deliver us some crumbs and even perhaps, because of her political know-how, some small pieces. But since Washington gobbles up for itself most of the pie, Clintsandists believe we should try to get a good chunk of the pie that Sanders wants us to enjoy by using the political powers of our states. Why can’t  Clintsandists elected governors of states fight for what Sanders wants for us in their states?  Clintsandism is not for raising from the dead the doctrine of states rights, but it does claim that states have governments with rich amounts of tax revenues and that they should start using them aggressively to give their citizens the quality of life they deserve and that Bernie Sanders is absolutely right to demand.

   Michael Moore’s film “Where To Invade Next” shows what great things some states outside the US have achieved. Portugal made all drugs legal and drug arrests are gone and drug use is down. Finland has the best education results in the world because it freed its children to enjoy childhood creatively and eliminated homework. Education in Slovenia is completely free at all levels. Iceland has a law that 40% of the members of boards of corporations must be women. Norway’s prisons are humane and without  violence and no one, even murderers, can be sentenced for more than 21 years. A lot of Moore’s film is no more than idealistic propaganda but he makes a strong point: the sand  part of Clintsandism is alive and well in some states but none of them are American.

    If we Americans continue dooming ourselves to political nullity by expecting Washington to create for our society good public practices, we will continue just barking up the wrong tree. The right tree is in our state but the main demand we make of state politicians is that they reduce or eliminate state taxes. We want our governors to fire state employees and strip state services to save money. Who are governors saving money for? State raiders like Governor Snyder of Michigan refused to spend state tax revenues to make the water safe in Flint but that did not produce more tax money for Washington. It is false that American states do not have the wealth to create good and creative public projects for their citizens. Why shouldn’t the sand in Clintsandism be put work in states while at the same time we demand that Washington help? Let every president be a Hillary Clinton and let every state governor be a Bernie Sanders. Let Clintsandism rule. The American states have enough revenues and powers to do the great things Michael Moore found done in foreign states.

Daniel McNeill

The World Economy of the Future

    Why would any state wish to maintain a military force to defend itself if it could be guaranteed security and defense by an outside military with a massive military force? Why would it need a diplomatic service if an outside government  agency could conduct diplomatic operations for it for a large union of states? If enough states unite worldwide, war and diplomacy worldwide would fade away and individual states would have sacrificed two sovereign powers now totally useless.  States in the worldwide union would be sovereign enough to assure freedom and democracy for themselves and for every citizen and every state in the union. Full state sovereignty would at last be seen for what it is, a means for a  ruthless exercise of power against state citizens and against all the citizens of all the other fully sovereign states in the world.

   How can this worldwide limitation of sovereign power come about? What state would agree to it? What state would give up its power to be independent and sovereign and become by joining the American union “a colony of America”? A state that is not afraid of the train because as soon as any state becomes an American state the train comes with it. The American economic, legal and political train. A new state would get a train roaring down the tracks into its territory right away. All American corporations blowing their whistles rushing noisily down the tracks greedy as usual to employ everyone they need to stuff their pockets with more money. The federal police from Washington hunting for interstate criminals and corrupt politicians to put into federal jails. Interference almost daily from federal agencies in Washington in the workings of their state agencies. The federal court system hearing appeals from citizens and overturning state laws that violate universal principles of human rights. The federal military, the federal navy and air force, the federal spy agencies, the federal tax agencies, the federal banking system, and on the train too people of every race in the world, American citizens, eager to buy property, eager to open businesses, eager to be citizens both of their new state and of the United States. The only serious model for the full development of the world economy is already operating in the fifty states of the American union. The union needs to be extended by adding more states. Every state everywhere should apply for admission to the US Congress which has the right to admit them. Everyone who wants a  new creative and prosperous and free world economy should get on the train.

Daniel McNeill  

 

Identity in American States

    Three of the republican candidates for President, Bush, Christie and Kasich, boast that as governors they balanced the budgets of their states by cutting budgets and eliminating large numbers of government jobs without raising taxes. That is more or less what corporate raiders do when they take over a company. They cut expenses by firing large numbers of people to make larger profits and to sell the diminished corporation for more money than they paid. State raiders like Governor Snyder of Michigan cut expenses by fouling the water supply of the people of Flint. The water systems in many states are unhealthy and even deadly because of budget cuts by state raiders in the past. Americans need to live in a state that acts in the best interests of the majority of its citizens. But an American usually does not feel an identity with the state where he chooses to live that is as strong as the identity of a citizen of a national state. Our political leaders do not always feel a strong identity either which makes a state vulnerable. We can never be sure under our political system  that a governor elected head of a state will act only in the interests of people residing in his state. People are coming in and out of our  states all the time and sometimes governors are carpetbaggers who may not have any felt interest in a state where they were not born.

   Somehow most of us believe we should not worry if we live in this or that state with this or that degree of protection against politicians with non-state interests because we have a federal government in Washington. But Washington can not and does not govern the whole of the United States as if it were one state and as though it was responsible for every political decision in it. It also has over the years done much to reduce the strong measure of sovereignty states had when they ratified the Constitution. It is a good thing that we are free to live and vote and have citizenship in any of our fifty states but it means we have often little or no authentic state identity. Our fifty states can never become well balanced politically unless other states in the world accept the same limited sovereign power of American states and join our union. In a united states of the world, the Washington government would no longer need to pretend it is the national government of a state and would become a de jure world government rather than just the de facto world government that it is now. All new states to our union would allow anyone from any state in the union to come to their state freely, to work and live and vote with full rights as citizens simply by taking up residence in a state of their choice. A governor could still be a carpetbagger and a state raider. But if less and less national states in the world gave their citizens an authentic identity using borders to keep  foreign people out and lock their natives in, the lack of national authenticity in states in a worldwide union would be a price worth paying if millions of people worldwide became as free as we are in our free and open American states.

Daniel McNeill

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Donald Trump May Admit New States

 

   Once in office, it may not suit President Trump’s objectives to bring as many new states into the American union as he can but that is nonetheless a powerful power that our Constitution puts in the back pocket of every president. Congress has the right given it in the Constitution to pass a bill at any time admitting a new state. President Trump must sign the bill to make it legal. He could easily make a deal with congressmen and senators to assure that he would have enough votes to admit a new state before negotiating some deal with a foreign state. He could begin by a press release making clear to every state in the world that he has such a power. Then he could go about the world making deals with the power to admit any state as a new American state as a trump card in his back pocket. Would President Trump pull out the card? Would he put it on the table? We have no evidence that any American president ever has. But Donald Trump says he will be a new kind of president. He will make America great again. America became as great as it is by admitting since 1791 over a period of 168 years 37 new sovereign states to its union. Is it conceivable that President Trump, who owns properties all over the world, will not see the possibility of continuing to do what made America great in the past? He may admit new states. Just because no President since Hawaii was admitted as a state in 1959 has played the powerful card in his back pocket, that is certainly no reason to believe President Trump will not pull it out and play it. We might as well vote for him if we want, like President Wilson, to save the world for democracy. If he could bring in,say, just ten new states it would be a mighty step towards worldwide democracy and worldwide freedom. It would be the best deal that he could make for America and the world.

Daniel McNeill