The Threat and Hope of Washington's Powers

   The American Constitution of 1790 created a new government that was not a state and not located in any state and had no fully sovereign powers except over the military and diplomacy. Thirteen sovereign states gave up forever their right to make war on foreign states or have diplomatic relations with them. One man, a president, was made the commander-in-chief of the military and diplomacy. These powers are ordinarily exercised by heads of states but in the United States the powers were assigned to one man who was not the head of any state. He was stateless but he had the power to make war on any state he wished backed up by thirteen states. Washington used its war power first in 1812 against Britain and last against Iraq in 2003. Washington had another major power granted by the Constitution. Article IV Section 3 gave Congress the power to admit new states. It used the power 37 times between 1791 with the admission of Vermont and 1959 with the admission of Hawaii. The central government of 13 states became the government of an empire of 50 states. It invited over the years more than 30 million immigrants from all over the world to live and work in any of its states with double citizenship both in the United States and in the state where they decided to live. Humanity at last had a vast continental and oceanic reach of states where it could live and create freely without living in the narrow and restricted environment of a nation-state.

   But the power of a few men in the government in Washington is both a military threat to humanity and the only serious hope of secure freedom and peace for humanity in the future. What states in the world will dare to trust their people’s hope for a peaceful democratic and prosperous future to a stateless government in Washington with the power to make war on any state it wishes and at the same time to admit  states to its union who are willing to give up forever, as did the 13 original American states, the power to make war? And where will they find the worldwide unity necessary to oppose the threat of Washington’s powers if they refuse the only real hope of worldwide unity that Washington offers?

Daniel McNeill

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What If Trump Moves Left Of Clinton?

   What if Donald Trump moves left of Hillary Clinton and begins promoting himself by promising to pass bills aiding Americans concretely? He will have the power as president to get them through Congress. Presidents in the past have played hardball dealing with Congressmen and Senators, a power play that President Obama did not use. Suppose he gets concrete, selects a woman for vice-president, and gets specific about bills aiding education, employment, health, retirement, infrastructure and transportation? Who can stop him if he sounds like a real American out to solve real American problems? Republican establishment politicians are openly declaring themselves against him. They are pushing him to the left of Clinton. She is actively seeking the votes of Republicans fed up with Trump and thus she is already moving to the right. She and other power brokers against Trump along with the media also opposed to him might force him to run on issues that would make up for the first time something like an actual positive policy of the American government for the American people! Both the Republican and Democratic establishments are fearful and even distraught. A president in Washington whose priority is America rather than the world? It’s unthinkable. It would create financial instability worldwide. But perhaps states in the world need to flounder off balance until they see that the best way to develop securely in the new worldwide economy where traditional states are failing is by becoming new states in the American union of states. They should help Americans balance for the good of humanity the worldwide operations of Washington and not just sit on the sidelines enjoying Washington’s favors passively.
Daniel McNeill

Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at

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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between

a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill

Trump and Clinton On Paths To Nowhere

   Most Americans want the United States to be a nation and to act like other nations in the interests of its own people. After years and lifetimes being told by the media and the government that we are a nation, we Americans want Washington to lead us as one. It’s impossible. Washington was never set up by the Constitution to be a national government and the more power it has gained since the Civil War against the power of the states, along with enormous monies from borrowings and tax receipts, the more it has become radically distant from any serious and practical national projects funded by its money. Donald Trump has benefited directly from a profound need in the people to feel that Washington can be made at last to act exclusively for them. He says he is going “to make America great again”. Washington power brokers in Congress and in the bureaucracies, especially those in the military and diplomacy, will allow him to make America great only for themselves and for the world not for Americans. Hillary Clinton has been schooled for years in a fundamental Washington political truth: Washington’s continued power and American security at home and abroad depend directly on Washington being the military, political and financial leader of the world. It can not continue this role unless it continues sacrificing American’s economic interests for the sake of the worldwide economic unity that transforms it from its lowly and isolated role as the central government of a union of states, located not in a state but in a the District of Columbia, into a gigantic political leviathan free to swim anywhere in the world like Moby Dick, smashing its powerful white tale against any opposition from its own states or national states. Alas, President Trump will find America has  too soggy a ground for latter-day nation-building and President Clinton will discover that continuing to support world unity by backing nation-states worldwide is a losing policy because even mature states can no longer govern themselves well and too many states are crumbling or about to crumble.

Daniel McNeill

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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between

a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill

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A President and Congress Acting Serenely

   President Obama has shown himself serenely at peace as a world leader during his recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. As long as the states of the world remain sovereign, isolated and divided, the president’s power and the security of federal power in Washington escape jeopardy. Washington is eternally secure as long as the world outside the United States is eternally insecure. We all need Washington and Washington makes itself necessary by working with its financial and military might for worldwide peace and democracy. It fulfills for itself practical political possibilities by working for worldwide goals that are impossible. What a tragedy it is that the only government in the world that possesses already the means to create a real workable legal democratic worldwide union of states assiduously refuses to use it. Instead Washington sits back secure in its power and does nothing to create real tangible worldwide unity.  The Congress in Washington since 1790 over a period of 170 years admitted 37 new states to its union. Now when hundreds of states around the world need to become new states of the United States to assure their existence as prosperous democracies, Congress, once a champion unifier, seems serenely blind to its own power. Its members do little more than offer the rich the pleasures of their votes at a price. They have no desire at all to unify the world even though they alone possess the power to really unify it. President Obama acts the role of a world leader perfectly. He finds himself serenely at home on a stage erected to produce no lasting and real result.

Daniel McNeill

Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at

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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between

a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill

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Trumphobia

According to the AP, Americans travelling overseas now face an unique problem - how to deal with embarrassing questions about the GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump. For example:

“On the whole, the Trump phenomenon is getting equal attention in the U.K. as in the U.S., if not more,” says Matthew Reading-Smith, 29, a native of Michigan who has been living and working in London for five years and was back home last over Thanksgiving. “Wherever I am, whenever someone notices my American accent, they ask me about Donald. I’m being asked to justify the country I come from.” Trump, he says, “strikes fear into the liberal values of Europe” and threatens, in the minds of Europeans, the special transAtlantic relationship that has been a cornerstone of the international order for decades.”

Trump is causing in Europe Trumphobia.

Since Europeans all live in states and Donald Trump is running for the presidency of a government in Washington DC that is not a state, that does not have the full sovereign powers of a state and is not located in any state, it might help them deal more precisely with Trumphobia if they realized that  their “special transAtlantic relationship” is indeed special and therefore precarious. Their security to live happily each in their own sovereign state has been guaranteed since the end of the Second World War by the continued sacrifice of the opportunity for social security and wealth by the majority of Americans. This is the deal we Americans have with Washington: most of us work hard and live cheaply so that our tax money can be used by Washington to create wealth in nations around the globe and to protect them with a worldwide military located in hundreds of bases around the world. Donald Trump has stumbled upon an odd idea that by right, if there is any universal justice anywhere, should not appear odd to Europeans: let’s use all of the power of Washington only for Americans.The idea is stupefying to Europeans! America for the Americans? It’s outrageous. It’s revolutionary. It means that Europeans and the rest of the world’s peoples would no longer have a de facto world government located in Washington DC, the loss of which would cause a world cataclysm a hundred times worse than the fall of the Roman Empire. But not to worry. Hillary Clinton is a dyed in the wool internationalist. She knows from her extensive experience in Washington that it is not now and has not been for a long time a national government. She is promising Americans a lot but as president she knows that  it would be too great a danger to worldwide security to give us Americans more than just a few scraps.

Daniel McNeill

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a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill

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Shaking an Established Global System

   Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have shaken a political system that needs shaking but the corporate media and the establishment have steadied the system with their power and money and it is again rock solid. Donald Trump was beaten up for two weeks by paid disrupters at his rallies and by blow after blow on the national media by reporters who squawked stop-Trump harangues so one-sided and foul smelling that it was as though they might just as well have vacated the orifice normally used to convey thought and blew their negative jargons out the other lower one. Sander’s rhetoric is so true and so just that it is harmless in a political system so tightly controlled at the top that his angelic policies all fly away on the same thin air that brought them down close to the earth in the first place. The reality is that the political system works very well. It can be used by individuals and corporations to their advantage but its design aims rarely at the advantage of us individual Americans. The top-down Washington government has such great power and is so firmly entrenched not because it was set up by the constitution as a national government  but because it has become over many years an indispensable worldwide-ranging international political-financial organization backed by a military stationed globally. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are playing cards that are not allowed in the game. Washington’s main game is global worldwide financial and political unity. Very few people possess the right cards to play it. A vote for Cruz or Clinton Is not a vote for Americans or America but for the smooth continuation of an established global political system. The Washington ship of state has been on a global voyage since the Second World War. Unless we make Washington an above-board, legal central government of a worldwide union of states, it will continue manipulating Americans and everyone else in the world for its own good instead of for the good of humanity.

Daniel McNeill

Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at

https://www.amazon.com/End-All-Beginnings-Daniel-McNeill-ebook/dp/B01IO1PEXO/ref=sr

Read it free on Kindle with a free app or buy it on Kindle for $1.99.

Also available as a book for $5.99.

A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between

a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill

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Picayune Successes and Over-priced Lattes

   We Americans are a religious people unmoved by our religion to love others as much as ourselves. We are a wealthy people too stingy to use our wealth’s power to help others escape poverty. We live in a union of states that we call a nation because we are ignorant of our history. We have worldwide military and economic power and are hated and laughed at by foreigners worldwide. We have no idea where our country is going but we send our diplomats worldwide to advise countries where they should go. We live in a country hundreds of times larger and more powerful than the country who gave us our language, England, but we do not have any of the courage the English once showed by realizing throughout the globe a bold vision for humanity. We want only to make enough money to live independently of our neighbors even though it is impossible in today's world to live independently of others. Our lives come down to working hard to make ourselves secure in an economy that is not secure because our jobs are local and the economy is global. We are deathly afraid to jump up together and demand that our politicians at last clap their souls’ wings, if they have souls, and lead us forward to the new global world that our religion, our wealth, our military and economic power demand. No, no, no. We can not just sit around and spend our lives in dead-end coffee houses worshiping our picayune successes while we drink over-priced  lattes. Our political system is the most successful and most revolutionary system ever invented for the good of humanity. We have to use it to benefit all of humanity and not just ourselves. During 169 years of our history as a union of states, we admitted 37 new states and we must continue to admit as many states in the world that wish to become new states in our union.

Daniel McNeill

Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at

https://www.amazon.com/End-All-Beginnings-Daniel-McNeill-ebook/dp/B01IO1PEXO/ref=sr

Read it free on Kindle with a free app or buy it on Kindle for $1.99.

Also available as a book for $5.99.

A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between

a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

Daniel McNeill