Washington Politicians Do a Healthy Business

If the United States were a nation, it would not be just sick. It would be near death. Everything appears out of control or bad. The gap in wealth between rich and poor is atrocious. Criminals at all social levels seem bolder than ever. No one knows what the government in Washington is up to and we see daily on the media piddling politicians doing piddling things clumsily and stupidly. President Trump has done all he can to grab much more power than his office allows and has failed. The Congress and the Senate have republican majorities and seem to be without goals. The most amazing sickness is the malady in our American heads that forces us to believe the government in Washington is actually our national government. What does it govern? What does it do? What national projects does it plan and execute?  It seems powerless to solve problems that are evident to all of us and yet it has more power than any other government in the world. Paul Ryan, the third man in line for the presidency in case of deaths, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, just tried to pass a new health bill that would have deprived 24 million low-income Americans of health-care insurance. Is this his idea of carrying out some national policy? How many of us would he have killed if he had succeeded in passing his bill? Any number is sickening even if it were just one and logic puts the number at least into the thousands. What a confused time! Where are we going? How did we get so sick and is there a cure?

   No cure is necessary. Everything is working fine as long as we protect ourselves from the sickness that comes over us when we think of Washington as a national government run by national politicians. The real government we Americans live under is represented by the boss where we work and by the incredibly complex financial and legal system that backs up our boss, our  corporations, our world-class economy and the worldwide economy. The government in Washington works perfectly well doing the business of managing the spending of trillions of dollars of American tax money and the money it borrows from foreigners. The Congress in Washington is not split between Democrats and Republicans when it comes down to spending our tax money. They get together. They pass bills quickly. They make deals. None of us Americans complain about Washington bigwigs being national and international high rollers and wheeler-dealers, especially since our economic security and that of all foreigners depends on the sophisticated money deals they make behind closed doors. When politicians in Washington are spending other people’s money they do a healthy business. Their behavior seems sickly to us only when they pretend publicly that they are politicians governing a nation.

Daniel McNeill

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The United States Stopped Admitting New States After 1959

The foreign policy of the United Kingdom at the end of the Second World War was determined by world conditions and self interest. The British Empire had to be dismantled and the military and economic power of the UK had to be increased. The overriding logic behind dealing with the  new worldwide conditions dictated that former colonies and territories must be freed to become independent states and that it was precisely their new status as nation-states that made them ripe for domination and economic exploitation by London and its ally Washington. The war had joined the United States and the British Empire militarily and politically and the union continued afterwards because the two power centers agreed to continue to keep their military and secret-service institutions united. The Anglo-American bloc uniting all the English-speaking countries adopted one and the same foreign policy: create and support nation-states worldwide and exploit any and all wealth within them by making them secure for rich investors and corporations by dominating them with diplomatic, financial and military power.

 The foreign policy of the United States in 1959 which included the admission of Hawaii as the 50th state might have continued freeing emerging new nation-states from foreign domination by admitting them also as new states in its union. But Washington went along with London. It gave up admitting new states and instead supported and dominated nation-states worldwide for its selfish interests instead of continuing to join new  states to its union of sovereign states as it had been doing from 1790 up until 1959. But now world conditions have changed. Nation-states need to reform their structures to benefit from the global economy by joining a worldwide union of states. Washington needs to become the central government of not 50 states but of hundreds of states to assure democracy and prosperity for peoples worldwide. Washington should begin again admitting new states to its union.

Daniel McNeill

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A Good Radical Change For the World

Why can we Americans not see that our central government in Washington does not want to govern us, is unable to govern us even if it wished to do so, and that, although it was set up by the Constitution with enough jurisdiction over us to unify us, it was not established to govern us? Why do we expect that Washington change and do things that it is unable to do?  Washington already does things very well that are vital for our own security and for the security of the world. Why can we Americans not bring about change  by supporting what Washington does well and by urging Washington politicians to use their power and influence to convince states in the world to join the union of our fifty states? What political change could possibly be greater and more profitable for us Americans than the admittance by Congress of even just one new state? If it were in Africa, would it not be great for thousands and thousands of Americans to find exciting careers teaching there? Could not our technologically advanced farmers  turn any new  American state located in a new state with a great deal of land into an agricultural powerhouse that would be profitable for both old Americans and the new Americans in the new state? Look at Cuba. If the government of Cuba agreed to allow Cubans to vote in a referendum either yes or no to petition Congress for admission as the fifty-first state, a majority would vote yes and admission would enrich Cuba with hundreds of advanced businesses and federal government agencies that would guarantee democracy and prosperity in Cuba so radically and so powerfully that the present “revolutionary” leaders of the island would appear no more revolutionary than spinster retired elementary school teachers. Everyone knows that there are billions in dollars or in other currencies worldwide that would eagerly and enthusiastically be invested in any new American state. It would be secured by its own local judicial and financial institutions backed up by the American military and by the judicial and financial institutions of the American federal government. We Americans don’t need to spend our lives hanging around Boston or Topeka drinking a latte and dreaming of change. Washington has the means right now to change the world radically for good without changing itself and such a change in the world will also change us for good.

Daniel McNeill

Read Daniel McNeill's interpretation of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, as expressing throughout the Holy Trinity at work. At: usoftheworld.com/genesis

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American Nationalism Destroys American and World Unity

Abraham Lincoln. In his inaugural address of 1861 said the Federal Government in Washington in the District of Columbia was a “national” government. He won the Civil War and since then there has been a rush to find a “nation” where none can possibly exist. Some believe the head of the “nation” is in a district called “Columbia” which would mean a government that is not in a state and is itself not a state governs nonetheless a nation. None of the 50 states can be “nations”  because even though they are all sovereign states they do not  have full sovereignty. But Lincoln won the Civil War and gangs of historians concluded that people from all over the world settled in a place named “America” that can not be located on any map of the world. They also claimed in hundreds of history books that English settlers from Holland who settled in 1620 in Plymouth, Massachusetts were “Americans” who helped found the “nation”. But let’s not quibble over the details of how the “nation” came to be because it never came to be. Let’s just agree that every day on the public media when reporters call the totality of our complex political system a “nation”, they are just repeating what our historians have been telling us falsely for  years, that we are a “nation”.

  The loyalty of the peoples of the fifty states of our union to the government in Washington DC is not only worthwhile and unbreakable but also essential to our unity and to the unity of all the states on our globe. Unfortunately, the people who voted for Donald Trump took seriously what historians have been imagining for generations. They as Trump believe they live in “nation”. President Trump is trying to govern a union of states as though it is a nation. This is Gotterdamerung. This is the fall of Stalingrad to Hitler’s army in 1943. This is the end worldwide of democratic civilization. Without the government in Washington uniting with its laws and policies and its power not only the 50 united American states but also the states of the world and the world economy, there is already today no world as we once knew it. We Americans created Washington but it does not belong to just us anymore. It also belongs to the world. It is the guts of the world and without it continuing to function as both a federal American government and as a world government we will have no world. Donald Trump wants to make America great again. It can never be great acting like a nation.  American nationalism destroys our unity at home and damages the precarious unity of the world.

Daniel McNeill

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Read Daniel McNeill’s complete book, “The United States of the World” at: usoftheworld.com/history 

Young in the 40s and 50s in Somerville and Boston

My generation was born in the middle of the 1930s and bloomed in the 1950s rooted in a cultural soil no more nourishing for our souls than ground in an abandoned city lot is for plants. We were 10 in 1945 when a madness inherent in humanity’s genes finally stopped killing millions of people worldwide. The Korean War in 1950 dulled our youthful dreaming but we had lived happily enough during the Second World War and a new one far away did not spoil our fun except for those of us who were nearly at draft age. We kissed one another in our teens in cars built in the 1930s and 40s in dark parking lots and listened to songs from jukeboxes on plastic-covered seats in new diners blazing with light. Even the mouths on television in black and white forming bullying words denouncing communism did not wake us up. We tried to keep dreaming and not open our eyes and discover that everything had already been done and there was nothing for us to do. Our society had been fitted together so harmoniously by the necessities of a war economy in the 1940s that, when the anticommunist hammers of the 40s and 50s tried to keep it in place by nailing it down crudely, few saw that it was a cockeyed attempt at unity rather than the real thing. The struggles of blacks for equality and justice taught some whites by 1965 that America needed to be realigned but it remained grossly out of whack until it exploded a few years later in riotous violence. In 1962 Vasili Arkhipov, the Russian naval commander of a fleet during the Cuban Missile Crisis, countermanded an order from his superiors for a submarine to launch a nuclear weapon and prevented the Cold War from becoming a nuclear disaster. President Kennedy was a man from the generation preceding ours. His generation sat on us like we were a horse and it a knight riding purposefully to some battle while we had no idea where we were heading. The Cold War knocked Kennedy off his horse and Khrushchev of Russia fell from power along with him. They had stood tall and manly  during the Cuban Missile Crisis and found a passage where enemies could walk together peacefully and lead the world safely away from planetary annihilation. For a few months, their courage blew up towards the heavens the merciless ideological hatreds of the Cold War founded like all ideologies on nothing but men with power pulled the hatreds back down to earth. We were in our late twenties in 1963 during John Kennedy’s funeral. Our thirties were just around the corner and we had not yet done anything historically that was uniquely ours. The Cold War went on for almost thirty more years and our lives bounced along with it like we were solid balls filled with air with no purpose except to be dribbled. Oh, it wasn’t so bad. We married and reproduced ourselves. We worked. We did what we had to do. We made money. By the 1970s we all had color television. Then in the 1980s we had remotes. Wow.

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