A Penitential Pilgrimage For Washington Politicians

We Americans are the only people who ever created instead of one state a union of 50 states. 50 states! Think of it! Fifty! 5 0! 50! We created a politically united society that is a revolutionary economic developmental system. The only reason the system has not gone on roaring towards the future with money coming out our ears is our chickenshit politicians in Washington. They do little with the trillions we send them to support economic development for us Americans. Their laziness, stupidity, cowardice and greed is rooted in the 19th-century idea that only free-enterprise capitalism should be the American way of doing business. This means in practice that the trillions in federal tax money that flows into their hands must not be used to invest in business enterprises. They need to go on a pilgrimage to a holy site as penance for this sinful outdated blasphemy against reality. Let them all get on a ship in Los Angeles and cruise down (at our expense of course) the Pacific to the entrance to the Panama Canal, The canal belongs to us but they (our friends in Washington) decided to own it and run it in a foreign state and give the government of the state an annual share of the profits. Washington maintains foreign states throughout the globe with its billions in aid, its military and its diplomats (and CIA, spies, global technologies etc.etc.) following the spartan rule that 50 states is enough. No more American states! Why create more states for the American union that would give new opportunities to all Americans if instead you can create here and there globally well-run-American-controlled-and-or-influenced states like Panama? And at the same time why not let this foreign policy help out one of our buddy states like China? Well, the holy site for our Washington guys and gals on their penitential cruise (big cabins and 3 lavish meals a day to make it not too penitential) is on the shore just a mile or so inside the Panama Canal (our canal). Our Chinese buddies made a deal with the Panamanian political bigwigs to lease enough land long-term for a monumental gigantic operation for unloading their container cargo ships with several huge cranes rising majestically high into the sky costing many many millions of dollars. And they’re no cheap chickens our pals the Chinese: a $1billion project to build a new deepwater port and another container terminal near the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal has begun. There’s development for you! No fooling around! Invest massively in any state anywhere in the world that our lazy cowardly Washington dudes have made secure politically and economically using our money, our military, our diplomats, our Cia etc.etc.. But would our Washingtonians simply enjoy the cruise and not feel penitential when they view the massive Chinese site already up on the Pacific end of the canal which obviously has nothing to do with free enterprise and is clearly the result of state-run capitalism exploiting the Washington-dominated free-enterprise worldwide capitalistic system? Could they possibly believe that some Chinese individual fought his way up the economic ladder and then urged on by the doctrine of free enterprise ( it worked in the 19th century but doesn’t work now for the general good without some government support) invested the millions he earned by individual effort far across the ocean in Panama? Le doute est permis. When I passed this gigantic Chinese site on our canal, I thought, wow, if only someone in our union of states, the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world, wow, if only other Americans could see with their eyes what our pals the Chinese are doing globally to benefit their people, they might, who knows?, begin pestering Washington to get our fantastic state-developing system ( between 1790 and 1959 Congress admitted 37 new states) rolling again by admitting new states. Although, of course, 50 is already a lot of states.The Russians once had 15 and did nothing to develop them. The Europeans have 28 and take in new states whenever they feel like it but they don’t develop them either. Wow did we once take in and develop states! Westering, to move to a new state for more opportunities was once the dream of every true American! Washington killed the dream by not admitting any new states since Hawaii in 1959! Hm. Even just a few new foreign states admitted to our union would mean using again but now  worldwide the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world. Hm.

Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 42

     Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.
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World Unity 41

    In Hegel’s great work, The Philosophy Of History, the German philosopher not only claims that world history has a divine purpose but also that the divine development going on is perfectly rational. Absolute Spirit expresses itself throughout history in a variety of forms. The universal aim of spirit at work in history is human freedom. The oriental world knew only the freedom of one man, as for example the pharaoh in Egypt. The Greek and Roman world knew only the freedom of some men, since slavery was instituted. The Protestant Germanic states of Hegel’s time, the early nineteenth century, finally realize the freedom of all. “The essential being,” Hegel wrote, “is the union of the subjective with the rational will: it is the moral whole, the state, which is that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom.” Since Hegel’s time, states in Europe providing a form for the realization of their citizens’ freedom have also been forced tragically to provide armies as a vehicle for their citizens to kill citizens from foreign states in grand battles and two world wars. The history of Europe after Hegel showed clearly that if Absolute Spirit was going to produce human freedom it would have to take some form other than the European nation-state. Hegel  looked beyond the political realities of his time to America. He suggested that the full burden of history’s march towards humanity’s freedom could not be born by Europe alone. “America is therefore the land of the future,” he wrote in The Philosophy Of History, “where in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world’s history will reveal itself.” American political experience agrees completely with Hegel’s notion that only the state can be the form where freedom can and should be exercised. But American experience also proves that the freedom of all individuals can not be exercised fully in a state that possesses full national sovereignty. A fully sovereign state always puts full power and full freedom in the hands of a minority of its citizens. Such power can be reduced and spread around throughout a population to free all citizens only if the political power of a state is not absolute. A state can be “the moral whole” and “that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom” without being a fully sovereign state if it can become a member state of a just union of states with a central government  with the legal power clearly stated in a Constitution to force states to support freedom for all their citizens. The American Federal Government has already lightened history’s burden by assuming some of the sovereign power of 50 states but it has not lessened their sovereign power to govern themselves democratically and provide for their citizens a moral whole where they can live freely.
Daniel McNeill 

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World Unity 40

    We propose that the states of the world unite with the fifty American states to become each a state of the United States of the World. The structure of this union already exists and has been growing and developing for over two hundred years. The United States of North America and the Pacific Ocean do not form and have never formed a nation. Its people come from all the nations and empires of the world and speak, or their ancestors have spoken, most languages in the world. According to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, Americans have double citizenship. They are citizens of the United States and citizens of the state where they choose to live. They can go to any state of their union and become established with full rights of citizenship simply by deciding to live there. They vote for representatives to two governments, one in Washington in the District of Columbia, and one in the state of their choice. We must begin to understand that our real interests are local and global at the same time and that we must make a global revolution to free ourselves fully and to reach our full human potential. But before any more quiet, rational arguments like these for our desired revolution, let’s release some revolutionary cries. Down with the blindness in the world that does not see and does not wish to see that real democracy is alive and fruitful in each of our 50 states! Down with the fiction that absolute sovereignty is necessary to ensure freedom in a state! Down with sovereign and absolute power in the hands of one person or one group  making all laws for millions of people! Two strong, democratic governments each with limited sovereign powers are better than one government with all the power! Sovereign and absolute power often exists to make corrupt riches possible for the person or group that has such power! A criminal is brought to justice in a court of law so it is also reasonable to put any law created by any government in a court to be judged according to the universal rights of humanity written in a constitution and superior to all the laws of all the governments in a union of states! Down with the idea that our union of 50 sovereign states must be uniquely American! It is open to all states of the world! The Congress in Washington has an absolute right written in the US Constitution to accept any new state into our union as it has already done 37 times since 1791! Join us you citizens of sovereign states so that we may free one another by all of us having two democratic governments, one local, our state with limited sovereignty, the other global in Washington DC, a central government that is not a state, that is not located in a state, and that possesses sovereign powers more strictly limited by the US Constitution than the sovereign powers of our states.

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World Unity 39

    We are a union of states that the Civil War transformed into a nation that then became a de facto world government. This triangle with the angles union, nation, world leader should give us Americans a triple identity. If we try to be only the citizens of a nation, we betray the Constitution which has not bestowed upon the federal government enough powers to make it the head of a nation. We neither can think of ourselves as being only citizens of one of our 50 states without betraying our loyalty to the federal government which is the unifying power of our economic, judicial and political systems. Since the Second World War our government in Washington has been manipulating foreign states for its own interests and also for the good goals of all of humanity. We are morally obligated to identify ourselves at least in part with the upsurge of our central government towards the global unification of all the peoples of the world. We believe ourselves a nation like other nations at our economic and moral peril as long as our central government continues operating all over the globe towards the goals of universal worldwide peace and unity and universal human rights for all peoples.

   Our government recognizes no national frontiers of foreign states as beyond its reach. Since it does not act only as a nation, we should base our patriotism on our total and absolute loyalty to the federal government. That is enough. Since we recognize Washington’s laws as superior in their proper place to state laws, we should regard it as the leader of a nation only in a very limited sense. Since Washington is already a de facto world government, we should think of our loyalty to Washington also as loyalty to its worldwide goals.  It is part of the fundamental character of our political identity as Americans that we have been continually admitting new states to our union since the union's beginning in 1790, in all 37. The Constitution that rules state and federal actions asserts in article IV section 3 that Congress has the power, an unlimited power, to admit new states. Our political identity must be triple to be true. The United States with characteristics of both a union of states and a nation and with a dominant role in the world can never fulfill itself except by admitting new states from all over the world and by transforming its federal government in Washington DC to the central government of a united states of the world. Only if we Americans act in harmony at the same time with the three elements of our political identity - state,national and international - can we create our true good and the world’s true good.

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World Unity 38

    The nation-state is a European invention. The Romans began the long fight to establish their empire beginning as a tribe living among the 7 hills of Rome. European nations developed typically in patterns of historical experiences much like those of the Romans, but the Romans ended up with an empire, the Europeans with the nation-state. The Romans fought heroic battles to enlarge their territory. They subdued neighboring tribes and established new borders and then went beyond the borders to new conquests. So did Europeans. The Romans made a central city, Rome, the seat of their expanded territory. The Europeans did the same setting up London and Paris, Madrid and Lisbon and other European cities as the seat of some expanded territory. The Romans took their tribal language, Latin, refined it and forced it on the natives of their conquered territories. The English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and all the other leading tribes of other European territories did the same. The most powerful confederation of tribes selected one of many languages, refined it and forced it on all the remaining tribes in their nation-state. The Romans won heroic life and death struggles with enemies to confirm their conquests and their imperial identity as Romans in a settled territory with a distinct language. The Europeans did the same except that they called their newly founded empires states. The European states grew up over long periods of crises and wars into firmly established unities of peoples with racial similarities and with well developed languages protected by armies eager for glorious a  wars to vindicate their national honor. The African and American states never went through similar experiences. Europeans left them with the boundaries of states and with European languages but without a living inner kernel of common creative and dramatic historical experience necessary to give birth to a genuine nation

    The union of the thirteen original sovereign American states was a unique construction. The American Constitution is generally understood to have been a masterful creation using doctrines of revolutionary European political theorists of the age of enlightenment. This is not true. Rationalist philosophers in Europe railed against the endless wars among their European nation-states but none of them theorized about setting up some kind of new supranational government whose purpose and being was designed to unite states rather than to be only just another national state among national states. The government of the United States of America was just such a supranational creation. The government in Washington set up by the Constitution was “The Government of the United States”. It had a purpose and a being for the united states not over the united states. Washington D.C., a non-state located in no state, was the seat of a government of a union of 13 sovereign states who had each dared to legally limit their sovereignty to receive the benefits of free interstate commerce and citizenship. The government of a nation-state restricts the freedom of its citizens by imprisoning them within borders. A union of states continually opens up for its citizens grand possibilities beyond all borders. European nation-states limit for their citizens what is possible. The 50 American states teach their citizens that there are no limits and that everything is possible.

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A New Form of Colonialism for Europe and America

Emmanuel Macron, the new President of France, has now cut enough money for the poor, the sick, pensioners, lower-end public employees, and the unemployed to make clear that the fist he is using to beat down the wages and public benefits of the middle-class and lower-class French is also European Union public policy. Punch the Europeans without power in the face and refuse to allow the EU economy to expand rapidly which would mean devaluing the euro. This is the same economic philosophy used by the bourgeoisie all over Europe in the nineteenth century. Their politicians and captains of industry worked for their own riches and nothing else. The idea of expanding an economy by any means to give the poor a bigger piece of the pie was absent. Wealth was created for the wealthy without any regard for the size of the scraps of wealth thrown to wage earners. The European Union is already top-heavy and down the road it should be as heavy at the top as the American Union is now. Unions of states don’t work for those at the bottom of the economic ladder unless they expand politically. A corollary to this law is that the only way to expand is to add new states. Thus the only road to a better way of life for average Europeans and Americans is a new form of colonialism. The old colonialism used gun boats and soldiers supported by cannons to expand to new territories for new economic possibilities. The new colonialism should add states to established unions of states for economic expansion by promising to transfer to newly admitted states advanced financial, legal, political and educational systems supported by advanced technologies. Any poor state added to the states of the US or the EU would devalue the dollar or the euro but provide a rush of new economic development and a bigger pie for both the rich and the poor. But who needs to create new wealth globally if the rich can stay at home and beat down the powerless locally in phoney unions of states that are not much more than new colossal nation-states if they do not continually add new states?

Daniel McNeill

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