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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