The End of the 50s and 60s and of Donald Trump

If you were a young man like Donald Trump in the 50s and 60s, you were out for action. No politics existed for you because the blabbering about the evils of communism on the limited media of the day said with one voice that in America you were on your own and it was up to you to get going. You had to either be, culturally speaking, hypocritically pious out in the middle of America in Kansas or some place like it using your mind and spirit to make money while you mouthed to everyone some religious and moral blather so generalized that it could not be true; or else you had to be like Trump, again culturally speaking, a New York hipster looking for a new score every day in bed or on Wall Street. Language? A pious Kansas hypocrite said nothing and a New York hipster said everything because talk of any kind and action of all kinds were life and if you were hip you were silent and inactive as little as possible because talk of all kinds led to scores of all kinds. In 2016, 50 years since the hipster heydays, an aging hipster like Trump feels power only in the  same talk and action originating in himself that once blasted him up to extraordinary profits like the rocket that went in the 60s to the moon. He flew past the regular moons reached by ordinary businessmen to the planet where his enormous bank balance allowed him to shine where only the hippest of the hipsters shone because they braved everything possible beyond the ordinary bounds of America and left that America far behind them. Trump can not talk the superficial and hypocritical platitudes intelligently served up on the media which Americans flattened and smoothed out culturally like wet clothes on an ironing board are forced to accept everywhere within themselves except in their hearts as real talk. Politically correct America is afraid of its own soul. It looks for action only on the surface of its being. Its talk is placid. Donald Trump can not talk that talk. The 50s and 60s are over and his campaign for the presidency is also over.

Daniel McNeill

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Growing Capital Instead of Bananas

For Karl Marx, capital is “stored up labor”. Whatever it is, it can now be created easily. Capital once had a mysterious aura about it but not anymore. A banker agrees to loan you $1 million. Nothing happens except that a computer registers that you have a checking account in his bank for $1 million. The state you live in now has $1 million added to its total supply of capital. There is no “stored up labor” yet. The $1 million becomes active capital when an entrepreneur writes checks on his account to produce work, products and profit.  In the American economy beginning in 1913,  private banks, members of the new  Federal Reserve banking system, were given the power to create the money supply of the US. They loaned money, thus creating new capital, anticipating that business firms would use it for products and profits using the future labors of hired workers.  The key element of this economic revolution was that private bankers, not some all-powerful central state bank as in Europe, were free to create all the capital they thought necessary. European nations of the period  created capital governed by the conservative actions of central banks. They used the capital created in their state in the territories of their colonial empires to exploit cheap local labor. New states or developing states in the American union simply opened private banks and created the capital necessary for local business enterprises. A state in Central America of the period had no revolutionary banking system giving it the means to create for itself new capital for new enterprises and so its citizens survived marginally by growing bananas. A state like Arizona had only 200,000 inhabitants when it was admitted to the US as a new state in 1912. It had a lot of desert land and profitable copper mines and thousands of Indians living in poverty but no big industries. But as a new American state it had banks that could become members of the revolutionary new Federal Reserve banking system. In a word, its citizens were not forced to grow bananas. They could risk themselves in any enterprise they wished because they had private banks with the power to create new capital. By 2012, the population of Arizona had grown to almost 7 million and the state product was 259 billion, more than the nations of Ireland, Finland and New Zealand. Central American states continued, so to speak, to grow bananas. Arizona by becoming an American state attached to itself an educational, judicial and financial superstructure already operating in 47 other American states. It went into the business of creating whatever capital its citizens needed to expand its economy exponentially. Living in a new  American state, its citizens never again had to survive by growing bananas. Foreign states should imitate the state of Arizona. They should petition the American Congress to be admitted as new American states.They should start growing locally the capital they need and stop growing bananas.

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Two "National" North American Communities

Two strong and widespread communities of peoples that we could perhaps call “national” did once establish themselves in North America. But both of them owed the force that created them not to themselves but to their oppression and dominance by others. A French-speaking “nation” came about in Canada in the province of Quebec in the nineteenth century under the power of British colonial rule. They had a distinct identity in English-speaking colonial Canada since they spoke French. For English-speakers, anyone who spoke French was a second-class Canadian citizen. The other “nation” was the slave community of blacks in the United States before the civil war. Both groups created a genuine unique culture out of their oppressed state. The culture of French-speakers oppressed in Canada or of blacks enslaved in the old American south never reached great sophisticated heights but it was real. Now French is a legal language in all the provinces of Canada. The descendants of black slaves backed by federal civil rights laws are free American citizens although still fighting against injustices committed against them because they can be identified by their black or brown skin. But the very success of the immersion of both groups in North American culture sapped the strength of their “national “ communities. Now they are important communities with political might competing with immigrant communities and other communities for a just place in North American culture. History has condemned once and for all the culture of Canada and the United States to be universal. Let the media and the intellectuals of both countries go on forever with their daily talk and writings about “the nation” and “national” issues. It is all just empty deadpan prose without even a hint of poetry or national authenticity. Talk to French-Canadians or American blacks who have authentic personal feelings in contact still with the old passions and beauties born from oppression and enslavement. Both groups knew what it felt like to live in a nation. They felt hemmed in and isolated behind barriers set up by fierce enemies. They had nothing emotionally and spiritually to do with anything but the people around them suffering like themselves and talking among themselves the language born from suffering that their oppressors could not understand. Their communities have been diluted by contact with our universal North American culture and are now gone. They will tell you that no national community has ever existed for long  in North America.

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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.

Ecobloat

Looking over economic development on our globe since the end of the Second World War, a new social and historical phenomenon is observable without as yet a name. Let’s call it ecobloat. Economic production in the US during the war of military and civilian goods was gigantic. The US transitioned to mainly civilian production starting in 1945 at a time when the civilian production in Russia and Germany was stagnant or non-existing and all the other European countries had economies that were scaled-down. The US was suffering from ecobloat. Ecobloat creates an economic law that is now observable worldwide. Whenever a national economy expands much more rapidly than neighboring economies, some spillover from the richer economy to the poorer neighboring or nearby economies is inevitable. The richer economy rids itself of some of its bloat by exporting its corporations, capital and technologies to neighboring countries. No ecobloat economy can simply isolate itself from poorer neighbors and continue to bloat. The US postwar economy was the first to deal with ecobloat. It could not export  most of its products because foreign states were too poor to buy them so it exported its corporations and its capital to foreign states along with its advanced technologies which made poorer states richer. Chinese ecobloat is now spilling over into South East Asian states just as US ecobloat spilled over long ago to economies like Japan and Italy and more recently to South American countries aiding them to become richer. But the law of ecobloat does not always operate peacefully. The European Union is a case of collective ecobloat that is not spilling over into African states and Moslem states and is causing unregulated immigration and terrorism. Germany recently tried to solve its ecobloat (it has already been been debloating in Poland) by voluntarily importing massive amounts of immigrants. This is at best a partial solution. The European Union can only solve its ecobloat problem by obeying the law of ecobloat. It must export its capital. corporations and technologies to poorer countries in Africa and the Near East or become economically obese. The US has never allowed us Americans to suffer the bad consequences of not treating ecobloat properly. It has kept us prosperous but lean by a long history of exporting our technologies, capital and corporations worldwide.

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The First Clinton/Trump Debate

The first debate between Trump and Clinton was not about America. It was about whether or not the US Federal Government should continue its now traditional role of governing the world militarily and economically. Trump argued that the government makes trade deals and political deals with foreign states unfavorable to American states. The deal with Mexico, for example, allows products from Mexico into the US tariff free while products entering Mexico from the US are subject to tariffs. Jobs are regularly sent from the US to foreign countries. Most big American corporations operate globally without benefiting Americans. America pays 78 percent of the cost of European defense by monies paid to Nato. He gave fact after fact proving what Americans and the world know. The Federal Government does not pursue a national agenda aiming at the advantage of the average American. Clinton, Trump argued, has been supporting this policy for years as a member of the political establishment in Washington. She explained with some detail her plans for America, better jobs, better infrastructure, investment in new technologies, fairer tax laws,equal pay for women and so forth. Trump said it was all talk and he was right. But she was right that it was the talk that an experienced Washington insider needed to talk to get elected President and continue using the power of the Washington government for the benefit of the world first and Americans second. The people with the most interest in what was said were not located in the 50 United States. They did not see and hear the debate about whether Trump would put America or Clinton would put the world first. Clinton won the debate. So did the world.

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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.

The Political Black Hole

Like the black hole in our galaxy, the political universe of our planet has a black hole. There is some odd power somewhere pulling the regular laws organizing our states towards some new formation. Once inside this  black hole, the laws that keep the 177 states on our planet in order vanish. The political black hole has its own laws, is not a state, and sucks down any state that comes near it threatening its uncanny power into a maw of political and economic oblivion. Do not ask where the black hole is. You can not see it and the best course for any state to keep going normally is to believe that there is no black hole. For how is it possible that states on our planet can be maneuvered surreptitiously by a political power acting as a state that is not a state?  There must not be any such entity. Scientists for centuries had no idea that a black hole existed in our galaxy sucking our planets into it. Everything went on in the natural world according to principles that could be discovered logically. Suddenly a chasm was discovered sucking us into it that had nothing to do with the principles that regulate us. Do we dare to look carefully with scientific logic for the political black hole? It is a terrifying business. If we find a political  superpower that is not a state acting like a state and if this false state is discovered diminishing the powers of real states, it would be shocking. It would be too terrible for our citizens living according to the normal laws of states to accept. Better not to think about it. Let it go on pulling us towards its abyss. As long as our political leaders keep convincing us that the normal laws of our states need no adjustment to protect us from the black hole, we don’t care  that there exists somewhere some powerful political black hole where our normal political laws do not exist.

Daniel McNeill

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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.

Are Americans Out Of Options?

We are out of options if we reduce our outlook to the piddling goals of our politicians. They all act and speak as though we must limit our hope for a better future to America and the American economy. They do not tell us (some of them don’t know) that there is no separate American economy. America is one part of a worldwide economy. Washington is go-go for the economy outside of America. We in America are falling behind other economies. We could instead be richer and more developed at home than the rest of the world if Washington could somehow scale down its go-go influence militarily and financially in foreign states. But it will not do this because it would cause an economic catastrophe in the global economy. We Americans can expand our economic opportunities only by expanding America itself by admitting new states to our union. Over a period of 170 years we admitted 37 new states. Every new state admitted gave every American new economic opportunities. Why should our children be limited to 50 states? Why not admit 20 or 30 states? The European union of states admits new states regularly. Why can’t we do the same just as we have actually been doing for 170 years? Any new states admitted would not upset Washington’s go-go influence developing foreign economies. It would make its efforts to make states secure for foreign investment easier and lasting. If you want a better future for yourself and your children, write your congressman and remind him/her that Article IV Section 3 or our Constitution gives Congress the right to admit new states. Let’s make America itself bigger. Let’s make it huge. Let’s make it worldwide. Let’s make the united states of America the united states of the world.

Daniel McNeill

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