Two Out-of-control Worldwide Phenomena

Donald Trump 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 an enormous supply of thousands of billions of dollars. His government has a large military and a great supply of hydrogen bombs, but the really frightening thing about Washington and its worldwide activities is that it was not set up as a central government directly responsible to and under the control of one specific people in one state. Even as far back as 1790 when the American Constitution was ratified by 13 states, Washington was designed with the characteristics of an international government. The fifty American states collectively send representatives to Washington and exercise a degree of control but no one American or foreign state controls it. Washington roams the world using its power to control states for what it conceives its interests which are certainly not exclusively national. What makes its power awesome is that at this point in world history the economies of most states are both national and global and the world must rely on Washington’s power for worldwide economic security. Washington's power is largely uncontrolled and at the same time indispensable for world prosperity.

   The second worldwide phenomenon that escapes control is the new extraordinary reach of international businesses and corporations. First, corporations in the colonial period went global to steal primary resources in foreign territories. Then colonial territories became states and their resources were bought cheaply with prices set by the most powerful states. In the next stage of globalism after the Second World War, corporations began transferring their activities globally but mainly to rich and developed states. The present form of economic globalism is new. It is no longer a question of corporations seeking only advantages like cheaper wages in foreign countries. The world now has so many developed countries that corporations can now achieve economies of scale and larger profits by penetrating and establishing themselves in many states with the goal to eventually be in all of them. And amazingly many of these global corporations are providing not industrial development but services.

   No one state anywhere can escape at least partial control by both Washington and international corporations. New ways of doing business are operating everywhere worldwide and before our eyes in our states. Our states must form new political structures to help their citizens deal with two worldwide phenomena now far removed from state control.

Daniel McNeill

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