Universal Human Rights For Americans Only

The debacle American political life is now passing through has a momentum to it that must lead to serious changes worldwide that no one can control. However, even as we watch its confused spreading, we should try to fit it rationally into its place in American history. Lincoln was the first Trump. He manipulated American history by a war among the union’s states that turned him into a godlike figure because even at this late date historians have not been allowed by public pressure to state in truth what he did. Wilson was the first president to understand that the Washington government had to operate for the worldwide good of humanity. He tried to unify the world’s states after the First World War but Americans then as now cared nothing for the security of the world and refused to follow their president on his noble path. President Roosevelt did nothing less by fighting a war worldwide against fascism than destroy the European colonial empires and people the world instead with free independent states. Next, because the old and new states worldwide were ripe for capitalist profits, the American government, military and big corporations finally decided that, yes, America should operate worldwide. For 70 years the government in Washington hid its designs for worldwide capitalistic domination from Americans explaining its actions by a fight against communism and then against terrorism. American foreign policy after Lincoln and up to Obama has been a magnificent success erected over failure after failure, political and military blunder after blunder, that did produce the financial and military unity worldwide that is now crumbling. Enter Donald Trump. He has decided that it is in the interest of Americans to destroy the imperfect worldwide unity that Washington has worked at now for two generations and that the world depends on even while perhaps a majority of people in the world hate America. There are dictatorial states in the world ready to help Trump take apart the American empire. Americans are finally, after years of indifference to their own history, confused and angry and protesting everywhere against Trump but the tragic flaw in their discontent is the continued blindness of Americans to what is happening in the world beyond their American bubble. It is coming apart and they are the only ones who can save it because only their government in Washington has ever seriously tried to save the world, a government which exists tragically for young and old enthusiastic protesters not as a world power giving the world unity but only as the place that guarantees them a whole list of personal rights. Down with Trump and Washington if it does not exist to guarantee individual American rights! Trump’s madness meets only the response of a passionate goodness that has become almost maniacal because it is so naive. Everyone want rights for everyone, for immigrants and Americans alike, but only in America! Since Lincoln’s madness shifted political power from our union of states to Washington, America has been working slowly and often crudely towards a unity of states worldwide. It should go on with that work! It should not only help states worldwide to develop peacefully but it should even invite them now finally to join if they wish our American union of states as new states. But that would require a new consciousness among Americans. They would have to start suddenly demanding from Washington not only universal rights for themselves but also for everyone else in the world.  Americans would have to become global thinkers like presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. Americans would have to understand that there are no universal human rights if they are not universal.

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: www.usoftheworld.com