Richer Days Ahead For Citizens of the US

It is so, so simple! Every time Congress admits a new state to our union of states, Washington increases its income from taxes. With 15 new states, its income would go way up and yet it would need less money because the world would be safer protected by the US military stationed in US states worldwide. The elected representatives from 65 US states in Congress could easily reduce federal taxes. Every employed citizen would pay less federal taxes and take home more money for the same work. With 65 states, Washington would be less involved in regulating states and states would have more power. As federal taxes decrease, states could increase taxes and use all their income only on direct benefits to their citizens. As we go forward, the robotization of industry and of life in general will make a democratic state devoted only to the welfare of its citizens the most essential thing. It is so, so simple! Congress has the right to admit new states according to Article lV Section 3 of the US Constitution! If the US had a 100 states, Washington’s present military budget could be decreased and still be enough to protect a much more peaceful world. There would be more peace and democracy in the world and more wealth for US citizens living worldwide. So,so simple!

Daniel McNeill

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American Relevancy Is Becoming Irrelevant

American domestic policy is free capitalistic economic development in a democratic union of states where none of its thousands of governments are fully sovereign. American foreign policy is the opposite. It promotes worldwide the existence of sovereign independent nation-states and uses its military and diplomatic power to influence them to be democracies open to free capitalistic development. This foreign policy has now run its course and failed. Worldwide we have mostly independent states ruled by dictators who steal the wealth created by global capitalism for themselves. Worse still, some of these states are big bull states with dictators who use the worldwide economy created by American policy to steal and control the wealth of their states and to use their easy access to massive amounts of capital to invest widely in foreign economies to profit from the global capitalistic system created and maintained by American power. America no longer directs the actions of global capitalism. It cannot thrive without American financial and military influence globally but the global economy that America created is now developed enough to function without its direction. American influence is now taken for granted. American relevancy is becoming irrelevant. Democracy worldwide is dying. Bull states like China and Russia are  powerful and relevant and big states like Turkey, India, and Iran are promoting nationalism without democracy to become bull states too. Dictators in less powerful states, whether elected or not, protect the rape of their state's wealth by imitating the big bull states. Running with the bulls is in. Ruling the nation-states of the world democratically is out. America has a weapon possessed by no other state that it has never used. Washington is the center of a union of states and obligated by its Constitution to force every one of its states to govern themselves only as democracies. Democracy no longer works in nation- states. America can become much more  relevant worldwide by admitting new states to its union rather than trying to maintain its relevancy by dropping bombs on them.

Daniel McNeill

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The Theater of the Impossible

The night sky over Kenmore Square shines with a strange
light that is not much less fascinating when we see high in the airthe steel poles capped with big electric lamps that radiate a
manufactured sunlight over Fenway Park, the home field of the
Boston Red Sox. We are in an immense crowd of people walking
along together as though in harmony with some secret rhythm
that sends out an odd murmur. The loud, blurred sounds of
thousands of words speak, without any language that can be
understood, about a precise excitement. We are all leaving the
same place to go together to a space that calls with a mysterious
voice understood by everyone. We have only to follow along. The sidewalk is unable to hold all of us; some must walk in the street that is crammed with cars. We don’t look particularly to see anything significant in the thousands of faces around us because the present business of walking seems so powerfully controlled by a strong desire to discover something absent rather than to seek anything in one another. The crowd has a touch of the nervous energy of buyers and sellers on the floor of a stock exchange who seem deaf to the noise of their own cries and forgetful of themselves because they have so completely surrendered their individual identity to a foreign reality indicated by fluctuating numbers on a board which seem at the same time to delight them and to torment them. But the energy of this crowd is the kind that has left for once the bewitching power of money in order to probe the veins of another kind of magic. The night sky over Fenway Park has no longer any night. We are on our way to a festival where nothing is for sale except the incorporation of ourselves in the eternal business of baseball.
Daniel McNeill
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Trump's Crazy Bombardment in Syria

Trump’s bombardment in Syria was crazy because it had no good political purpose. No head of any government should commit willy nilly an act of war against a sovereign state.  President Trump blew up an airfield in Syria for the abstract moral reason that a legally-elected dictator  was continuing to kill his own citizens in a civil war and now every Syrian citizen is fully justified morally in waging war against America and Americans. For what reason did he put us in this position and how do we respond to our Syrian enemies when they attack us? Can we say that we bombed their airfield for them?  If that was the purpose, then we are committed morally to invading Syria and changing its political leader as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. If President Trump does not conduct all out war against Syria to remove its leader, then his bombardment was simply crazy. If he does go to war, he risks war with Russia since it has military forces in Syria allied with it. A crazy act could have a crazy and deadly development.

   Instead of shooting bombs for no good reason at sovereign states, President Trump should start acting sanely and send them democracy. Instead of risking war with Russia, he should get rid of the economic sanctions against it. More globalism and free capitalistic activities in Russia will weaken its dictator’s power. Trump and his Republican majority in Congress have the right under Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution to admit new states to out American union of 50 states. Offer American statehood to Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and to any other former Russian colonies that wish it. Offer it to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan too and to any other states worldwide that want it. The only goal that is both sane and good for American foreign diplomacy is worldwide democracy and universal human rights guaranteed in every state anywhere. They would be much more powerful bombs than the ones President Trump delivered to Syria for no rational purpose.

Daniel McNeill

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