50 states exercised their sovereignty by electing Donald Trump president of a government in Washington that is not located in any state and is not fully sovereign. American states parcel out their sovereignty assigning part of it to a central government and keeping the greater part for themselves. The citizens of the states vote for representatives to the legislatures of 2 governments neither of which are fully sovereign. It is impossible to rule a united group of sovereign states despotically. A fully sovereign nation-state is always ruled despotically either by one dictator or by some group of men elected democratically. The most important political objective of citizens of any state should be to make most laws regulating how they live. The fullest amount of political freedom should be the objective not the fullest amount of sovereignty. If Donald Trump were the president of a sovereign state, his total inability to govern would be a disaster. As it is, he and the other money-grabbing politicians in Washington simply grab and grab because government is mostly done locally. But Washington has absolute sovereignty in limited areas that directly affect world military and economic security. Trump's mismanagement is weakening an international system ruled by Washington whose collapse would be the worst economic disaster that has hit the world since the fall of the Roman Empire. We Americans must remain firmly loyal to Washington and support it for good or bad. We need to save the world by offering nation-states worldwide open admittance as new states to our union. But if we don't keep Washington safe and secure there will be no world to save.
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