The Mystery of American Nationalism

American nationalism is a mystery because like a mystery it has no clear basis in fact. The North American continent has produced empires here and there but never any cut and dry state  on its own with its own language and borders and an army to defend it like European nations. New England got up on its own an army and fought the British army in its fields but it soon had to rely on aid from other colonies and France to survive and win independence. Then it’s 4 states gave up their independent sovereignty and joined 9 other former colonies to form a union of states. Abraham Lincoln turned the conflict over whether or not to extend slavery to new western states into a war and changed a union of states into a quasi-empire. 20 million immigrants from Europe who could not speak English then arrived and decided with scant knowledge of American history that they were in a nation like the ones they had abandoned to make money. Most of their aged and disgruntled grandchildren and great grandchildren who had never lived for their entire lives in a nation voted for Donald Trump. He is now the leading politician in a gigantic blob of well-paid bureaucrats and elected representatives in charge of hundreds of departments, agencies and commissions financed with such an enormous supply of thousands of billions of dollars that it is positively scary both whether they rule a nation or they don’t. They have a large military and a great supply of hydrogen bombs and that makes Washington for every foreign state a state even though it is not a state, is not located in a state and has no legal or political power over people living in any national territory. So the mystery endures. American nationalism has no basis in fact but it is alive and full of a new passionate energy to make America great again. Donald Trump is it’s national leader.

Daniel McNeill

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