Hegel’s dialectic at work in history never lies: any great movement in history organized for some long-term end will call up from history an opposite movement designed to destroy it. This antithesis will fail but then combine with the first movement to form a third movement, a synthesis, that will continue the march of history towards some new end unforeseen by either of the first two movements. Washington’s power that has been growing since the Second World War and has been exerting itself all over the world for 70 years is now getting an hegelian punch in the face. Trump is now seizing the enormous political power that history granted Washington and is trying to use it for a totally new historical end, American nationalism. Trump and his ego and America and its ego have now an end that can only be for the immediate future destructive, themselves. The first movement, the thesis, was not nationalistic so the second movement of the dialectic, the antithesis, can only oppose it with nationalism. Making America great again by trying to become like all the many other ego-driven national political bodies screaming to the heavens that there exists some divine political law somewhere demanding that they must exist isolated and only for themselves -- this crazy non-existing law will fail to make America what it can never be and also be itself, a nation. So where is the synthesis of the conflict that will result from the thesis and the antithesis? If it is genuine it must contain something from the thesis and therefore still be for some kind of world unification. It must also contain some element that will provide Americans with the certain identity that they live in a great union of states that is not a nation. For Washington to unify the world after Trump it must find a way to do it legitimately without all the back-room secret manipulations of the last 70 years that were never free despite good motives from economic greed and brute force. Trump will use crude methods until he is opposed when his nationalism goes too far. Then history will give Washington, still extremely powerful, a new chance. It will be able to preserve its power and use it worldwide only if it pulls Article IV, Section 3 out of its Constitution and starts using it. Section 3 says that the Congress has the power to admit new states to its union. Washington will open its eyes and see finally with something near divine clarity that it can unify the world peacefully and legitimately by continuing to add new states to its union. Just 5 or 10 new states admitted to the American union will abort forever the birth of a Trump-like America-first nationalism and make the Washington government finally the central government of the United States of the World. That is why history and its dialectic are now punching Washington in the face. It wants it to get up from the floor after a beating by Trump and be what history wants it to be, a light to the world, a legitimate champion of peace and economic development and democracy for every state everywhere. Only God knows where history is going but men as intelligent as Hegel can at least see the paths it must follow to get there.
Daniel McNeill
Read "The United States of the World" a complete book of 12 essays on the movement within American history towards changing the central government in Washington to the central government of a worldwide union of states at: usoftheworld.com/history
Read other writings about worldwide unity at the United States of the World website: usoftheworld.com
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