Most Americans want the United States to be a nation and to act like other nations in the interests of its own people. After years and lifetimes being told by the media and the government that we are a nation, we Americans want Washington to lead us as one. It’s impossible. Washington was never set up by the Constitution to be a national government and the more power it has gained since the Civil War against the power of the states, along with enormous monies from borrowings and tax receipts, the more it has become radically distant from any serious and practical national projects funded by its money. Donald Trump has benefited directly from a profound need in the people to feel that Washington can be made at last to act exclusively for them. He says he is going “to make America great again”. Washington power brokers in Congress and in the bureaucracies, especially those in the military and diplomacy, will allow him to make America great only for themselves and for the world not for Americans. Hillary Clinton has been schooled for years in a fundamental Washington political truth: Washington’s continued power and American security at home and abroad depend directly on Washington being the military, political and financial leader of the world. It can not continue this role unless it continues sacrificing American’s economic interests for the sake of the worldwide economic unity that transforms it from its lowly and isolated role as the central government of a union of states, located not in a state but in a the District of Columbia, into a gigantic political leviathan free to swim anywhere in the world like Moby Dick, smashing its powerful white tale against any opposition from its own states or national states. Alas, President Trump will find America has too soggy a ground for latter-day nation-building and President Clinton will discover that continuing to support world unity by backing nation-states worldwide is a losing policy because even mature states can no longer govern themselves well and too many states are crumbling or about to crumble.
Daniel McNeill
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
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.
Daniel McNeill
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