The Openness of America and the Pettiness of Nations

Public discourse in America talks now of Americans who feel “disenfranchised” and “threatened by profound demographic shifts in American society”. We are not disenfranchised. We are forever voting in local, state and federal elections. When writers say Americans are disenfranchised, they may mean incorrectly not that we are voteless but are more rootless than other peoples. Thank god we are so rootless! We can move at any time freely to any one of fifty states. The same writers who talk of “profound demographic shifts in American society” also speak of “a long-overdue public debate about who we are as a nation.”  Demographic shifts are normal in America. Our population has been shifting across the North American continent and the Pacific Ocean for more than 200 years. And since we are not a nation, have never been a nation and are not one now, there is no need for a debate about who we are as a nation. We are a union of fifty states with full sovereignty forever outlawed for any of our governments by the Constitution. That is why we are not disenfranchised. That is why we are always shifting demographically. That is why we are more tolerant than any people anywhere of foreigners living among us from all over the world. A real public debate about who Americans are would reveal we can not be defined as nicely as people living in nation-states. We have no one fully sovereign government, no national language, no national government, no one politician with the power to command us once and for all and make life and death decisions over us as in nations. Nations in Europe like France, Italy and Germany are now debating whether people living among them whose origins are elsewhere can wear a burka publicly. In America you can wear what you want, go where you want, live and work where you want, vote where you want, worship where you want, be anything you want except be a citizen of one nation. I want to live not just in the United States of America but in a united states of the world that will continue what is best in America, our openness to everyone from anywhere. Let’s stop worrying about “profound demographic shifts” and citizens who are “disenfranchised”. Let’s stop yearning for “a public debate about who we are as a nation” since we are not a nation and should not want to be one. Let’s not ever worry about people wearing burkas among us. All nations should give up the pettiness of being merely nations and join with other states in a worldwide union of states by petitioning the American Congress to be admitted as new states in our American union. They should begin sending elected senators and representatives to the Congress of an interstate central government in Washington so we can start worrying about and solving the real problems of our world, problems that can never be solved if the world remains broken and disunited by nation-states.

Daniel McNeill

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Abraham Lincoln Victorious Again

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River with his army, violated the sovereign authority of the Roman senate, made himself a dictator, created a new political basis for the Roman Empire, and assured the existence of the Roman Empire for 600 years under emperors with absolute power. The deification of Abraham Lincoln for the actions he took to start the Civil War and create a new America make the deification of Julius Caesar understandable. Julius Caesar killed a half million Gauls and made war against whomever he wished, including against Romans. He had done too many unspeakable and atrocious things with superhuman cruelty to be remembered as a mere mortal. He had to be deified to keep human eyes forever blind to his monstrous excesses. Deification too was necessary for Abraham Lincoln. Historians have labored for generations to portray each example of good behavior they can discover in his humdrum life before his election as president as one of many key moments of advancement towards moral and political greatness passed through by an uncouth uneducated Kentuckian born into a 16-by-18 foot log cabin with a dirt floor. They portray his character as unflinchingly right-minded even though they all know he plotted behind the scenes like some Machiavellian renaissance prince to sandbag the state of Virginia and to force it to secede from the union so he could invade the home state of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington with a large army, annihilate its fighting men and rule over its citizens. However many prominent Americans opposed Lincoln’s war against Americans just as Cato opposed Caesar’s war against Romans. William Allen, elected to Congress from Ohio and later a governor of Ohio, was an outspoken critic of Lincoln and an opponent of his war. In 1887, Ohio donated a statue of Allen to the National Statuary Hall Collection, which has since been exhibited in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. In 2010, the Ohio Historical Society held a statewide poll on the suitability of Allen as a distinguished representative of the state. The poll found that many Ohioans objected to Allen. On August 26, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted to replace Allen's statue because of his criticism of Lincoln with a statue of Ohio-born inventor Thomas A. Edison who invented the light bulb. Now in 2016, Allen’s statue is being replaced and Abraham Lincoln is victorious again. Watch out when any politician crosses the Rubicon River with an army. It can have long-term consequences.

Daniel McNeill

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Americanism and Globalism

Neither the president nor the congress have any choice but to operate globally. If the world goes down, America goes down with it.

   What a contrast between governments in Washington and London! London, once responsible for 25% of the people on earth, has isolated itself in a nationalistic castle. Every decision it takes will be for the benefit only of the UK. Its central bank can carefully regulate the money supply and the value of the pound to the advantage of the UK without regard to the state of the world. The Washington government borrows so much money daily worldwide to help pay for its global operations that the amount if revealed would shock Americans who send tax money to Washington to pay interest to its foreign lenders. The American economy is a garden of infinite delights for entrepreneurs who have easy access to huge amounts of capital and an enormous labor supply of workers forced to work at low wages. A general rule for any president now and in the future is to let America alone and concentrate on the world. It is not that the world offers tremendous opportunities for the huge supply of American capital. It is rather that the oversupply of capital has nowhere else to go except globally and thus America and the world can progress smoothly only together. They have no choice any longer but to be together. Americanism and Globalism are now permanently linked. America can never hide like the UK safe behind moats in a nationalistic castle.

Daniel McNeill
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The United States of Russia

                             

   The future of the world belongs to those who can best form a just union of sovereign states. The present system of independent sovereign states is no system at all. It is dysfunctional compared with the necessity evident to all that our globe can not be made healthy unless states make a united effort against global warming and other dangers to the natural environment. Our world needs desperately a union of states each with limited sovereign power governed by a written Constitution assigning limited sovereign powers to a central government and guaranteeing democratic governments and fundamental human rights to states in the union that no government has the right to take away. Amazingly, the United States of America has been constructing such a system for a period of 170 years up until 1959. During those years it admitted 37 states to its union. Now neither Americans nor their government in Washington seem interested in doing any longer what they have been doing throughout their history, admitting new states.

   Russia disunited its union of 15 states in 1992. President Putin has said that this was the greatest political mistake of the 20th century. Why then does he not turn the present Russian political system into a United States of Russia? He can use the American Constitution as a guide and adapt it to Russia. He would need a central government located in a federal district. Moscow would be become such a district and would be the seat of the central government. Militarily and diplomatically there would be no change. The government in Moscow like the government in Washington would have absolute control over all military and diplomatic activities and would receive income taxes from individuals and businesses located in every state of the union. Russians could divide the present territory of Russia into several states and admit them to the union just as the government in Washington created states in its union from territories in America. Once the union of states is set up in Russia, independent foreign states would be invited to join. It may be that well developed foreign states would not be attracted to the union but there are many poorer states worldwide that would be happy to join.

   Russia has feared a real decentralization of power throughout its history. It has never understood that decentralization does not mean a loss of central power. The decentralization in the American union strengthened the central power in Washington. By imitating the American Constitution and the practices that developed from it, Russia would decentralize not only political and judicial power but also its banking system. It should imitate the Federal Reserve Banking system of the US. Allowing free and independent banks throughout the states of the new union to create the money supply for the entire union is the key to a vital and prosperous union of states. It allows unlimited economic development in states and sends portions of the money earned by individuals and businesses to the central government in taxes and then this money is recirculated back through the states producing more economic development.

   President Putin is justly worried about military and economic pressure being used against him by Washington. Why does he not create a rival United States of Russia to compete politically with the United States of America globally?

Daniel McNeill

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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.

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No Presidential Issue at Any Level of English

Hillary Clinton speaks on the campaign trail in a measured and thoughtful English and Donald Trump speaks as though he has never tried to speak an intelligent English and does not care that at moments he seems not to be able to speak English at all. Trump  speaks like most Americans. We try to get across in talk with others what we mean with a jumble of words without using an extensive vocabulary. We throw out words at a listener and care little what we sound like as long as somehow we see that a listener gets our point. We use a precise English only at work or in professional situations where it is necessary. Sadly, unless we are dealing with income or profits or a job, we have nothing to say. Trump sounds like us, like an American. If the election for president had anything to do with being an American or not being one, he would win.

  The election is about something that Americans do not want to hear talked about publicly. It is about the fact that the Second World War and the Cold War gave the government in Washington worldwide military, political and economic responsibilities that have continued to the present and that it absolutely can not give up for the good of the world. We Americans know in our heart of hearts that Washington is gone from us because it now belongs more to the whole world than to us. We know that we will never get it back as only a national government. We hide our political sorrows behind public displays of patriotism. Our loyalty to Washington is genuine because we invented it and we know in our hearts that it will turn into a monster for us and everyone in the world unless we continue to support it and perhaps guide it to become a world government de jure as well as de facto.

  So neither Hillary Clinton in good English nor Donald Trump in jumbled American English speak about the real issue. Washington pumps out daily so much financial and military help to the world that without its worldwide leadership Americans and everyone else will suffer drastic economic consequences globally. Both candidates must pretend that they want to be president to serve Americans but the reality is that as president they must devote themselves first and foremost to serving the world. The words of the candidates say nothing about the real issue and nothing need be said. Whomever Americans vote for for president will not be only their president.

Daniel McNeill

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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.

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The Scourge and the Sweep of Corporations Worldwide

The scourge of the production of goods by employing humans in rationally organized work began long ago, 800 years ago, when middle-class merchants and entrepreneurs in Europe escaped from  feudal slavery and set themselves up in towns with independent rights.  The first industrial revolution in England in the 17th century established the scourge as the basis of an incredible new prosperity for a few people. In America in the 19th century, a few men organized new industries into gigantic trusts and sent the revolutionary scourge through the roof. By the beginning of the 1960s, American corporations had established themselves worldwide in 6000 enterprises. In America, government administrators, industrial managers, university economists, engineers and scientists were creating new industrial strategies and technologies to integrate factors of production that were constantly innovating the structures of American corporations. American entrepreneurs were so far ahead of the rest of the world that they forced the world to imitate their business practices or fall behind. Everyone everywhere rushed to Americanize. The scourge eventually added to its methods advanced computer technologies. It conquered the world. It has swept all over infecting every state worldwide and it will not stop until it uses every human and every resource globally that can be turned to a profit. The disease is now so widespread that we no longer have any choice but to accept it as good.

   It is good because it is the best way to create wealth but it is bad unless many more individuals than now profit from the wealth. Only states taxing corporations justly can make the difference but corporations dictate many state laws rather than the other way around. The center of unjust corporate political power and the most important means to distribute corporate wealth unjustly is the Congress in Washington. American states send Representatives and Senators to Washington and at least have some power over the political turpitude but states worldwide stand apart disengaged from democratic representation in Washington. It is in their vital interest to join the American union as new states and at least have some say in the distribution of wealth at the universal level in Washington. All the states in the world have adopted American business practices. They should also join the American political system which is a union of states with limited sovereignty and help redistribute the wealth justly that derives from the ever increasing sweep of advanced corporations around the globe.

Daniel McNeill

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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.

Trump and Clinton Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Neither Trump nor Clinton as president will be able to use Washington’s power only for Americans. The rock on one side of any American president is Washington’s global interests and the hard place on the other side is the same Washington forever examining ways to protect and develop the world to the advantage of the rich and content to let the average American get by mainly on his own. States in the world should join the American union and send double the amount of money in taxes that we citizens of 50 American states send to Washington. Ten trillion dollars in Washington’s hands and 50 new states in its union would end all wars on earth and make Washington a de jure world government. It would make its present job developing and governing the world easier and legal. It would have enough money to stop global warming even if it’s politicians and bureaucrats  wasted half of it. Most of the well salaried bodies in the governmental departments in Washington have no idea what their department is about. But just as in any church there are at least a few holy people to keep the truth alive, each department has a few people who know what is happening and are capable of directing it intelligently. Most men and women in the Washington establishment would laugh at the idea that the huge present overflow of 5 trillion dollars into thousands of pockets might be doubled. But a hundred states would force them to stop pretending they govern some nation named America and both the legitimate responsibility and the means of saving the world might make them actually work to save it. But without any new states in our union there will be no new money nor any fantastic new opportunities for the world and the loafing and pretense in Washington  will go on. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will loaf along with them reduced to minimal worldwide duties between a rock and a hard place.

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