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

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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.

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

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

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

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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

.

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

.

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

Change in the Air Globally

Back long long ago in 1948 after the Second World War when Washington was giving billions of dollars to Europeans devastated by the war, one of the congressmen considering voting for the Marshall Plan asked whether or not they should put language in the bill forcing Europeans to buy American products. A Washington insider told him with a slick smile that that was not necessary because the kind of products Europeans needed existed only in America. Europeans and the rest of the world no longer need American money because they have plenty and they make their own products but they still take American money in one form or another. The American military and diplomatic apparatus still operates around the globe as though the Marshall Plan is an eternal global necessity. Americans passionate about supporting Donald Trump sense that new conditions in the world have made the global operations of their central government out of whack because they always favor foreign countries at the expense of their own country. Trump says as much in his speeches every day. He and his supporters are right. The global system centered in Washington has not changed since the end of the Second World War and it is dangerous, very dangerous, that the people who run the system can see no way to change and no necessity to change. It was once a vital necessity for America to export to foreign nations its capital and its technologies but the necessity has vanished. Change is in the air globally and the only realistic way to manage the change is to make Washington the central government with limited sovereign powers of a worldwide union of states.

Daniel McNeill
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A Nationalist Running For President Against an Internationalist

   Recently a media commentator said Donald Trump was a nationalist. Since Abraham Lincoln declared in his inaugural address of March, 1861  that the government in Washington was a national government, the correct view in written and spoken public discourse has always been that America is a nation. But suddenly It is shocking that Trump plans to take what we have been told for three or four generations seriously. He is going to act as president as though he were the head of a nation.

  The root of the shock is that the present state of the worldwide economy now favors America acting as a nation. For a long time America has been shipping its technologies and its capital all over the globe. But It has now no longer any new foreign nations to raise up to modern economic prosperity. Economically and militarily the world can now take care of itself. Before America could not export its goods because the world was too poor to buy them. Not any more. The last reclamation project for America was China.There is now a global market for American products and buyers with deep pockets. History is on Donald Trump’s side. The American economy is booming loaded with all the most advanced technologies and creating new technologies daily while it has at the same time a huge labor force willing to work at low wages. The roaring industrial economy of America in the nineteenth century is all set to roar again in the twenty-first century. Many Americans sense something new is happening and they want a part of it. They want to make America great again. Donald Trump caught their need and is expressing it. He is a nationalist.

   Hillary Clinton is an internationalist. She has had too much direct contact with the way the Washington government works to be anything else. She has declared that the decisions she makes as president will affect directly people worldwide. But is it possible for the next president to be an internationalist like President Obama? The world must go on for its own security with Washington acting as a de facto world government but the old diplomatic and military categories that gave rational form to Washington’s worldwide adventures are worn down badly. A nationalist is running for president in America against an internationalist. No one knows who will win.

Daniel McNeill 

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Globalization, Scarcity and Violence

   Once globalization meant that anyone with enough political, military or economic power could cross state borders to pursue some interest. It was always violent. The local political power in the foreign state had to be forced to sanction legally the foreign intervention. The politicians in the state where the invasion began used military and diplomatic powers to aid their investors to install their corporations in foreign states. Profits were made and portions of them were enjoyed by a few citizens in the penetrated state, natural resources were exported and  advanced foreign industrial technologies were introduced to increase the general wealth. We see now that immigrants from poor countries are also pushing their way into foreign states violently to pursue their economic interests against the interests of local citizens. Already 50% of the people in North America have moved to a state where they were not born for some economic interest. Scarcity and violence are the motors of all economic life. The struggle once went on traditionally in economies within the borders of states. Now it goes on across all state borders globally. Terrorism is a third form of globalization. It also crosses any border to pursue its interests. It is against the peaceful life of any people in any state. It carries the logic of globalization to the limit. It is pure violence and fights scarcity worldwide for no one.

   International businessmen, immigrants and everyone else need to have double citizenship in a worldwide union of states to fight scarcity and rationalize the violence inherent in globalization. Citizenship must become worldwide since citizenship in just one state is no longer safe from violence from global forces with the power to cross international borders. Why should not everyone have the right to live anywhere in any state worldwide with full rights of citizenship simply by entering a state and taking up residence? International corporations enjoy such rights, immigrants act as though they already possess them and terrorists with their bombs and their kalashnikov rifles have expropriated the right to go anywhere across any national border and kill anyone. Everyone needs to be a citizen of both a worldwide union of states and a traditional state. Unless we all have the right to go anywhere worldwide to pursue our interests,  businessmen, immigrants and terrorists will continue to arrogate the right for themselves alone and the violence of globalization will continue uncontrolled.

Daniel McNeill

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