A Bull State Is Back in America

After Lincoln won his war against 11 American states and was assassinated, the radical Black Republicans in power in Washington did everything they could as Trump is now doing to change America from a union of states into a bull state. The Republicans ruled from the top down by amending the Constitution and stacking the federal courts with judges committed to striking down any state laws that went against Washington’s power or prevented rich bankers and industrialists from making excessive profits. Rich men used the uncouth practices of bureaucrats, lobbyists and office-holders in Washington to keep power out of the hands of the average Americans and immigrants laboring in the dog-eat-dog industrial hell of the late 19th century. The 13th amendment freeing slaves did not prevent African-Americans from being lynched and the “equal protection of the laws” of the Republican-created 14th amendment did not protect striking workers from the clubs of policemen. When the union reached 45 states in 1895, it was clear that a new Rome had appeared in human history because by then the union of states that had morphed into a bull state had interfered in the affairs of 103 countries worldwide and had used its bull military force in Argentina, Nicaragua, Japan, Uruguay, Angola, China, Hawaii and 3 years later during the war with Spain in Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Trump already has the federal court system in his back pocket especially when he adds a new judge to the Supreme Court. A solid tradition of using federal politicians, the federal courts and the military to create a bull state is behind him. He will try to  continue it to an end that can only be disastrous. The power we have to fight him can only come from the Constitution and the rights we have as sovereign states in a union of states. Already Californians are about to have a referendum to secede from the union. This would amount to a disaster as great as Trump’s rise to power. We must never give up our firm loyalty to Washington and to our union. Our union is our greatest political creation. It is what we are. Our loyalty to Washington is at the same time loyalty to our union, loyalty to what we are. We are not a bull state. We are a union of states with universal human rights guaranteed to us by our Constitution and our central government in Washington.  California became a great state because it is in a great union. It will become much less if it leaves the union as will all of us if we fight Trump’s bull state by first giving up what we are.

Daniel McNeill

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Bull-State Colonialism and a New American Foreign Policy

The main reason to change the American foreign policy of the last 70 years is that it now benefits the new colonialism of bull states. The free-market economic globalism developed in the last 50 years is now well established worldwide. American financial and military dominance keeps it securely in place. All multinational corporations or smaller corporations from any country are free to go to almost any state anywhere and invest and set up operations securely. However another type of entrance into the economies of foreign states is now developing. Bull states like China and Russia, scornful of democracy and free-enterprise, nonetheless possess central banks controlled by dictators with the instruments to raise capital as they will. It is obvious that many Russian and Chinese corporations doing business internally are not the result simply of individual investors with individual funds. They are funded from the top down. We have seen in Nazi Germany and now in China and Russia that state-controlled capitalism works. China rose to power in the global economy because the United States made the money China’s central bank created valid by tying its value to the dollar which is the world’s reserve currency. The American dollar’s power worldwide gives currencies tied to it validity worldwide. China now has investments of 870 billion dollars in Canada, the US, Mexico and all over South America and Africa as well as Asia. It creates capital in a state-controlled central bank to fund such regular free-market investments and it plans to continue investing through two new world banks controlled by China’s political dictators. It can make its worldwide investments securely and safely because the United States has financed for 70 years a huge military and stationed it worldwide for world security. But there is a new trick about creating capital that bull states are now also into. Bull states already realize that they can fund projects in smaller states by creating money from out of nothing. This money sometimes may not be used only for wise and profitable investments. The money for such projects if created for projects at home internally would simply produce inflation and lessen internal wealth. But big projects in weaker smaller states that are a part of long term economic goals or are foreign military projects are not inflationary and in effect are covered-up ways of making money for the officials running the projects who manage companies created by dictatorial governments. The United States did this in its wars in Iraq which created huge profit windfalls for corporations who received military contracts and did nothing that had any free-market profitable value. China is already building a new canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Nicaragua with thousands of imported Chinese workers. This is a new form of colonialism. It is bull colonialism profiting from the security provided by the United States spending liberally the taxes of Americans. Russia is also learning that the Ruble’s secure value worldwide because of the mighty American dollar means its central bank can create all the money necessary for all the bull projects it can devise in smaller, weaker states. Russia now has a permanent enclave in Ukraine and in Syria and financing it did not lessen Russian wealth at home. Bull projects create bull money for bull states. Nicaragua is never going to be strong enough to kick out the Chinese and run their new canal for themselves. The Russians are never going to leave the Crimea and Syria. The world is now ripe for this new bull colonialism. The Chinese investments and Russian interventions all over the world carry with them political control by Chinese and Russian bull-state dictators. American foreign policy made it possible and now that policy must change.

   Today on January 20, 2017, the day of Donald J. Trump’s  inauguration as the forty-fifth President of our United States, is there no citizen in our 50 states willing to appeal to Congress in Washington to announce it is ready to hear petitions from states worldwide for admission to our union? Is Congress not still free and within its rights under the Constitution to admit, as it has done 37 times in the past over a period of 170 years, new states? Why should we Americans, who already have a political system in place guaranteeing a democratic government to each state that is a member of our union, not be willing and eager to admit other states to our system to create a better world? Bull states have no development plans for the foreign states they push their way into. They and other wealthy states are developing poorer states by investing in them without plans to give them in addition to new capital, new modern financial, educational, and legislative systems that could be easily installed if they became new American states. A central government in Washington would guarantee them a democratic state government, put their corrupt state politicians in jail, and protect them with its military. America alone has in place already a development plan for new American states. Why should we not employ it in competition with the bull states? America has been employing such a plan by adding new states to its union throughout its history. Since we Americans possess the greatest and wealthiest society in the world and have already a workable plan to make less developed states more prosperous, why not use it actively as a beneficial element of a new foreign policy?  Why should we Americans, who have always been and are now open to any person of any race and any religion coming to live among us from any state anywhere, close our union as a means to develop states worldwide now threatened with the crude developmental methods of dictatorial big bull states?

Daniel McNeill

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Trump and Putin Wheeling and Dealing

Russia has one-eighth of the land on the earth and natural resources estimated at 75 trillion dollars yet its gross domestic product is 2 plus trillion dollars and less than the GDP of Italy. Surely President Donald Trump will find opportunities observing the economic doldrums of Russia’s economy and its vast potential for development. Russia needs as did the US in the 19th century foreign capital to develop. After the chaos in the 1990s making a transition from a communist to a market economy, President Vladimir Putin has done an excellent job raising standards of living greatly but his economic policy like his politics has been central control from the top down. It has worked but only to a degree and the next stage of development in Russia’s young market economy can only be the result of a free and large injection of foreign capital and business know-how if there is to be full development. Putin has manoevered himself to a position where he is now blocking Russia’s development. Trump has the capital and the financial institutions tied to his government that Putin needs but where and on what basis can they make a deal? Both leaders have vast areas of their countries outside of industrial areas that are ripe for development. Both have military budgets that are excessive and drain capital from civilian needs. A bold sudden military alliance would allow both to lessen military spending and by sharing technologies they could at the same time make their militaries more powerful. The problem is that the alliance would naturally lead to economic cooperation between them that would weaken Putin’s political power which is based on the strong and genuine nationalistic feeling of Russians combined with a competitive and hostile posture against the US. Here is where Trump’s art of the deal comes into play. He must find a way behind the scenes to make Putin secure in power and at the same time get enough concessions from him to silence the war hawks in the US. The greatest deal Trump might work would be convincing Putin to return Crimea to Ukraine. Putin does not need it as much as he needs a wholehearted financial alliance with the US federal government. Crimea belongs to no nation. Let Ukraine have it with the assurance that any Russian citizen can go there freely across a Ukrainian border with the same rights there as a Ukrainian. Ukraine would certainly agree to a strip of land there under Russian sovereignty for the Russian navy. Let’s  see if Trump is a master deal maker. He and Putin together have large areas of their countries to develop and Trump has the financial means to develop both if he can somehow make a deal that will make Putin politically secure and that will give him and himself more elbow room combined with a more secure and more peaceful world.

Daniel McNeill

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Italy the 51st American State?

Why not begin to solve the serious economic problems of Italians by giving each Italian the right to seek economic opportunities and be a citizen in 50 American states? The American Constitution reads in Article IV, Section 3, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union.” Congress can pass a bill giving 61 million Italians the legal right to live and to work and to vote and to run for public office in any one of 51 states in North America and on the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as well as in Italy merely by their taking up residence in one of them! It would be a revolution on a scale like the conquest of Gaul by Caesar in the ancient world. All it requires is a referendum in Italy. If Italians vote yes and the American Congress passes a bill admitting Italy as a state, a new world will be born with the city of Rome again a grand presence in a vast territory of united peoples.

Daniel McNeill

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Good-bye Nation State!

A look at the map of the United States with a basic knowledge of key events in American history should convince anyone that an extraordinary revolutionary unfolding and development of humanity unlike anything in its past somehow happened on our continent. Our rebellion against Britain would never have succeeded unless she decided finally to let us go and be rid of us.  She was tired of trying to conquer and rule crude uneducated swarms of white men with their black slaves scattered about in a vast wilderness. Britain understood that humanity’s adventure in America would never work. She let us go free to learn for ourselves that we were condemned in advance to futility. She took Canada instead of America and was sure that something would stop the swarms of humanity to the south moving west, the wilderness or the Indians or the Mississippi River or the French and Spanish territories. We would never reach the west coast and the Pacific Ocean and what kind of government could ever rule and dominate such vast swirls of humanity of every race coming from all over the world and always on the move west in spite of the great overwhelming difficulties? But the most amazing event in American history was the creation of a political system that establishes the most free and the most just distribution of political power that has ever ruled or ever will rule humanity. Britain got rid of us once and for all and we got rid once and for all of the nation state. The American Constitution means that not one of our fifty states will ever be a nation and our grand and just and powerful government in Washington will never be a state! Good-bye nation state! You strangled humanity to death for centuries but you will never get your deadly grip on the many peoples in the states of our union or in any new state that joins us!

Daniel McNeill

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The Revolutionary Work of Washington Needed Worldwide

   Since its beginning in 1790 with 13 states, the admission of 37 new states over 170 years to the United States was a revolutionary model for the creation of wealth for poor people. Before the rise to a fantastic level of prosperity in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries, nation-state economies created wealth only for rich captains of industry and the middle classes. The poor were instruments to create the wealth but they were excluded from an adequate living wage by their hostile economic and political masters. The war between the rich and the poor went on behind national borders everywhere but in the US.There competition for new wealth kept spilling across the borders of old American states to new American states. What worked politically, financially, industrially, agriculturally, legislatively in eastern states was quickly imitated and easily installed in new states to the west. There were no values in this new revolutionary union of states except the values of the middle class but the steady expansion of the union into new states gave everyone including the poor new opportunities. Everyone adopted middle-class values because continuous expansion to new states created and spread around more and more wealth.

   This model of economic expansion alone will work for undeveloped states. Capital cannot be transferred in large quantities to undeveloped states from developed states unless there is political union between them. The excessive capital now in developed states can spill over easily into undeveloped states if they gain the legal right to use together with developed states  the common judicial, legislative, and financial practices possible for each state in a union of states. The non-state government in Washington in the District of Columbia has been facilitating interstate commerce and economic expansion among states for almost two and a half centuries. It should continue its revolutionary work by inviting nation-states worldwide to petition its Congress for admission to its union. The stateless government in Washington should become the central democratic government of a united states of the world in order to begin at last the economic development of all states everywhere.

Daniel McNeill

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A Union of States Is What It Is

The government that has organized the largest union of states on earth is itself not a state, is not located in a state and does not have the full sovereign powers common to states. Between 1787 and 1790,13 independent sovereign states ratified a Constitution and created a central government with limited sovereign powers in order to create a more perfect union of their states. The new central government of a non-state possessed no state territory. Small portions of land were taken from the states of Virginia and Maryland and  the District of Columbia was created. A government with some powers valid in 13 states was located in a tiny portion of land named a “district”. It alone was given the power to admit new states to the union. From the admission of Vermont in 1791 to that of Hawaii in 1959, the Congress of the central government located in the District of Columbia has passed bills admitting 37 new states to the United States of America. The history of the revolutionary political structure that resulted is far too complicated for any easy comprehension but one conclusion must be held universally: it is not a nation. A nation has one supreme government with the power to enact laws valid for every citizen located within four national boundaries north, east,south and west. Some laws passed in Washington and some judgments of the Supreme Court in Washington are valid for all Americans but by no means does our central government have the full power to create any law at all as it wishes as is characteristic of a nation. In fact, the main political action that Washington has taken consistently throughout its history is the admission of new states to its union. Over a period of 170 years, it admitted 37 new states. Why should it stop doing what it has always done? Why should it stop admitting new states to its union if doing so is part of its very nature? A union of states is what it is, a union of states. A union of states can not become a nation without grave damage to its nature. It should heal any past damage done to its nature by admitting in its future new states.

Daniel McNeill

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Classless and Governmentless in America

The longtime free movement of capital and investments across the borders of the 50 US states has produced the classless society Karl Marx predicted would result from a superabundance of material wealth. Of course we average Americans don’t own most of the wealth and the rich distribute theirs to us on their terms but we work and get our hands easily upon more than what we need. Our poor all have cars and you can go to the cheapest supermarket in any American town and watch them stack their cars with an abundance of food. Money alone talks and class power is now silent. The rich are an upper moneyed class but we never come in contact with them and they are so rich that it is often difficult for them to live except hidden in wealthy boondocks. We don't know what it’s like to live under the political and economic tyranny of aristocrats or a bourgeoisie. Our postmodern American society is classless. We prove that Karl Marx was right.

   Have we proved Karl Marx right that all forms of government would slowly disappear? No, but we have spread them around and limited their powers much more extremely than any other society. With one central government that is not a state located in a federal district and with 50 state governments, we Americans at least feel something like being governmentless. We simply move about where we wish as though state borders did not exist. We are more or less indifferent to the fact that we live in a union of states because it has become natural to go with complete freedom and live and work and vote in any one we wish. We send  lots of money in taxes once a year to Washington but Washington recirculates all its money back to our states directly or indirectly by concocting and funding thousands of projects adding money to all our states’ economies. Sending off tax money to Washington is like putting up money in a gigantic pot in a gigantic poker game. Money goes from the pot into some of our hands and then back into the pot to be recirculated. We never feel that there is some government somewhere with the power to interfere in our lives and tell us what to do. We live “in America”, a place that has no mention on any world map. We live mostly on our own in a country that needs five words to name it realistically.

   The question our way of life asks (although few of us ask it} is: how can anyone anywhere live freely and happily confined behind the borders of one national state? For us it is an unthinkable, abnormal political condition. But there doesn’t seem any cure for it except for the nation-states of the world to apply to our Congress in Washington and become states of a united states of the world with the Washington central government the new Rome. But the opposite seems to be happening. States prefer  commanding their citizens rather than freeing them to live democratically and prosperously under governments with their power reduced by a written constitution to just the level necessary to keep life in communities civil and happy.

   Karl Marx predicted that governments would gradually disappear. That will happen but only when most states in the world unite politically and legally with most other states so that most of us can finally live classless and governmentless as we do now in America.

Daniel McNeill

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