The U.S. Constitution is the greatest document in world history. It does not need to be rewritten. It needs to be read and understood. We are not teaching it in our schools. We know that because there are generations of birthright Americans who are crappy citizens who hate America.
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Our constitution is not a way for the government to bind, restrain or control Americans. It is not a tool of government at all. The United States Constitution is a tool for us, We the People. It is how American citizens are to limit and restrain Government’s size, growth, and power.
The people who wrote our constitution were extremists in the cause of liberty. People like Patrick Henry were not meeting their opposition halfway. They were not whining about free healthcare, free college, or free housing. Those things are not American birthright.
The founders wanted the opportunity to control their own destiny. They were fierce people, determined to defend what was theirs, to respect others as they respected themselves, and to live in a place where we all have the right to try, to fail, and do it again until we make things better.
If you think it is right to compare our ancestors with immigrants crossing our southern border today, you have no understanding of America or what being American is about. Settling an untamed, undeveloped land and building Judeo-Christian civilization is not the same as coming to an industrialized nation so you can sign up for the government-sponsored freebies.
The people who wrote the U.S. Constitution did not include the Second Amendment because they enjoyed hunting. They had just fought a war to liberate America from the tyranny of a king. They wanted, they expected, every man to support and defend his freedom from governmental tyranny. That’s why we need the right to keep and bear arms.
Today many Americans are willing to; they do crap all over this country. They denigrate her inception, her history, and her future. That is because they have not walked in the boots of those who came before. They are frustrated by what they were not given.
They do not understand what the colonies which preceded the American nation were. They do not understand why we fought the King. They do not grasp the significance of the Civil War. They do not love freedom, opportunity, or the duties of citizenship.
They understand how to destroy what is but not how to build on the base. Unity does not come from the destruction of other people’s property rights or attempting to compel them to do what is not in their own self-interest, or trying to compel belief and conformance.
