American Political Schizophrenia

In the few days since Trump’s victory, there is little public talk about actions the new president will take domestically to the advantage of the average American. Trump is going to export 3 million immigrants and build a wall along the Mexican border. There is talk of billions of dollars to be spent on repairing infrastructure which will create jobs but it is already leaked here and there that leaders in Congress and the Senate will have none of it. Victors are exultant about possibilities for using their power hatefully against minority groups and losers are depressed about losing their rights to be unmolested as lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, immigrants, hispanics, african-americans or women exercising abortion rights. Some of us are suffering from a catastrophic political trauma while others are so elated by the same political event that their hatred of everything foreign or female or odd has made them delusional. These joys and woes are without any real political content and have resulted in an American political schizophrenia. Only diplomats and the military are in touch with reality. The military owns bases all over the world and it has the military hardware stacked ready to fight two major wars worldwide simultaneously. Diplomats are stationed worldwide in stable states where American investments are safe and in states where conditions are deteriorating but in either case they are in touch with reality. We at home feel a need for our souls to be soothed by a solid inclusion like other peoples in a nation. Donald Trump has revealed  that as president he may exclude some of us from this nation which we sense we need more than ever as it slips further from our grasp. History has taken our political system  worldwide and far beyond the limits of some national form. Our politically  schizoid minds are seeking psychological relief in a phantom nation. Christ told us that we always have the poor with us and he was a master at therapy. Those trying to cure their political schizophrenia by demanding a larger minimum wage are on the right path to political mental health. But the American demand that our Federal Government end poverty nourishes our hungry psyches much less than people living in nation-states because we alone of all peoples have the power in our American empire to wound poverty worldwide and even kill it. The reach of our government in Washington is worldwide. We should not try to cure our schizophrenia by fighting poverty only in the US. All poverty everywhere must go. It is therapeutic to demand an end to poverty  for ourselves but  we can be fully cured only by demanding that our Congress admit new states to our union. We need to go beyond our worries about only our local poverty and our local rights. We need to take our technologies and our capital and our advanced political system with universal human rights guaranteed by a written constitution to new American states located all over the world. Then we can actually get our hands on all poverty everywhere and kill it all with the powerful bold strokes of our American empire’s strengths. That would end once and for all our American schizophrenic detachment both from the real needs of our souls and from the economic needs of everyone in the world.

Daniel McNeill

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