Remember that the Constitution was written before the Industrial Revolution when the world was very different.
The other important point that is consistently forgotten is that the country was just emerging from a protracted war in which a tiny pitiful band of farmers had beaten back what was arguably the most powerful nation in the world. That pinnacle of unity (in spite of the rancor between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans) has never been matched and has continued to deteriorate ever since. The only other time that we came together to anything remotely like that degree was during World War 2.
i am sorry to pop your little patriotic bubble but the founding fathers were also slavers and wealthy men in a see of uneducated farmers... look at it, it has not actually changed that much has it? and that war was not fought only by those farmers they had outside help too.
The population was deeply engaged and involved for fear that their sacrifice would be for naught. The Founding Fathers failed to imagine that a day would come when the general population would disengage from its own governance and that nearly half of eligible voters would not even bother to exercise their primary civil privilege and obligation.
the only problem is that the voting system used in the US is built to disengage peoples from the governance, it adds a useless and detrimental layer to the an election processes that is already democratic to the minimum
In recent years, it was the evil ones who took a sledge hammer to the concept of "We the People" and installed a wedge between a people and its government. With their media conglomerate behind them they have worked hard for nearly 4 decades to dis-educate millions of people to believe that something something could protect the needs of the people better than their government could.
the dis-education predates all of that by a very long margins, there exists old documents discussing that, although i am a bit too lazy to search today, the government around the industrial did not want educated peoples that may disobey or look at the risk and refuse to work in those conditions, they wanted mindless workers, and so education was cut back and propagandized...
When you look at neither with patriotism tainted glasses the USSR and the USA looks remarkably similar, just one at the end had a leader that slipped up and gave away to the peoples, and the peoples took taste and the USSR failed, the current USA is just a culmination of what short minded capitalist did to get their pot of gold out of it and did not care for the next one, founding fathers included.
Of course you do not learn that in school, i am not even sure you can get access to books discussing that in the US, like books about colonialist wars in France are hard to find and sometime outright censored (how in this day and age is it possible that a book talking about the history of a country be forbidden to import or a film to watch...) democracy was killed long ago, it never really existed to start.
all and all patriotism is bad, it dehumanize the rest of the world and make you very short sighted, we should all look at the whole world and not US or France or England, patriotism does not have a place in a world with pandemics and food shortages. actually as do armies, Bush's crusades in Iraq could not have existed without mindless patriotism.
ps: maybe not my greatest idea to talk politics with about 3 hours of sleep in the last 2 nights, but hey hope it at least entertains someone.
