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