The Four Big, Bully Nations

I started this blog because I had a vision for a new consciousness possible for Americans. I saw that young thirtyish people and their parents had been preached to in their high-school textbooks and by the media and two generations of history books that they lived in a nation. They had no idea that they lived with amazing political and intellectual freedoms precisely because they lived in a revolutionary union of 50 semi-sovereign states rather than a nation. Now with the disastrous election of Trump, the nation that they all believed falsely that they lived in is false no more. It is here growling, gruesome, grotesque, growing in irrational intensity and hating all freedoms political, sexual, ethnical, religious. I was always against the American political and economic system as a young man and middle-aged man. But my sudden vision taught me that the fact that we were a union of states and,just as important, that our union had survived for so long the anti-state-sovereignty actions of corrupt, dictatorial  and unpatriotic men in the federal government meant that the revolutionary vision of our founding fathers for a vital, democratic union of free states self-ruling with the integrity of their sovereignty intact was still alive. Now it is dead. Both Trumpists victorious and Clintonists defeated see nothing possible politically in America except by clothing themselves in the ugly and unpatriotic dress of nationalism. The monster. Moby Dick. The white whale whacking all little ships of state with its merciless tail down into the abyss. America has become overnight with the election of Trump a big nationalistic bully like the three other big, bully states in the world, China, Russia, and the European Union. Yes, Europeans want their union to be a big, bully nation like the other three. My vision that the union of free and democratic states in America can extend itself and free the world by transforming itself to the United States of the World is near death. Neither Europeans nor Americans, neither those on the left nor on the right, care at all for the freedoms and human riches possible in a genuine and expanding union of states. They want only to be members of big, bully nations like China and Russia.

Daniel McNeill

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