Just Thinking About Our Good Old Constitution…

By John Summer

I was reading this pesky document the other day. It’s called “The Constitution.” For those who may not have heard of it, it’s the thing that pretty much guides our country through thick and thin. We are, after all, a “Constitutional Republic.” Oh yes, we “practice” democracy. But it’s that document, The Constitution, that actually directs us on how we operate.

Or at least it’s supposed to.

The folks who created it spent a lot of blood and treasure and divine guidance to refine that piece of paper down to its basic, critical essentials. It’s revolutionary. No other country is so pro-individual. You. Me. Being a fulfilled person… is to be free.

Now you don’t have to read the whole thing to understand what it means. In fact, it’s pretty simple. There’s a little preface that sets it all up. I actually memorized it in fourth grade. That was when in school you would actually learn things like history and math and English and, you know, useful stuff to get you through life.

Those kinds of things.

So, the short little bit of words I memorized is called “The Preamble” I’m going to recite it for you right now. Here goes.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

Pretty simple, Huh? But notice what it does say, and what it doesn’t.

What is does say, is that the entire purpose of our government is to protect us, so that we can be free to exercise our “inalienable “rights. Those are rights that are given by God, or whatever you wish to call a higher power. You can’t take them away. They’re yours.

Since those rights come from God, and not from “man” … ipso facto, government, under our Constitution, exists only to defend those basic principles. Not control them.

But here’s the zinger. Notice the phrase “Promote the general welfare.” Our founders were very particular in their choice of words and phrases. And therefor, “promote” the general welfare.

Not “establish.” Not “provide.” Not “insure.” Not “secure.” Just “promote.”

And what they intended with this very specific term, is that the government will do its best to create a secure environment for all citizens to be free to thrive and grow and prosper, and the government will cheer you on. That’s it. Not take care of you.

That’s where we’ve lost ourselves, and the founding principles of being an American. We’ve railroaded our government into a myriad of social service programs that create a dependency that was never intended. And it’s sick. And it’s criminal.

We have safety nets with non-profits and churches and communities for those truly in need. But government always messes things up.

Now obviously you’re not free to beat up your neighbor or burn down a building or steal from an institution or…. that’s the part that says: “Establish Justice. Insure domestic tranquility.”

But, call me naïve, doesn’t it seem these days that we’re demonizing and defunding our law “enforcers,” and coddling and funding our law “breakers,” in complete defiance of what our Constitution promises? And in the latter case, the scams and graft and theft through various government programs is by the billions with a “B.” Maybe even a “T.” If you pay taxes, you’re getting ripped off folks. And it’s all the fault of the scoundrels that “we” vote in to enforce the laws, not break them.

But break them they do. And it’s (to use an overused term), “systemic.”

So now we’ve got these really creepy and dangerous extremists running New York City and Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis and Chicago and Los Angeles and…. stop me, please. Who voted for them? They don’t like our country; they may even hate our country. They want to remake it into something it was never intended to be. And it’s doomed to failure. The money they squander through giveaways to stay in power is departing as they pontificate. Santa Claus is leaving with all the wealth.

And we all live with the consequences. You. Me. And our treasures: Our kids. Our grandkids. And those yet to come. Our future. “We” are screwing them over.

Is the pain bad enough yet? Then it’s time that you vote for sanity. For common sense. And stop voting for “feel-good failure.” Or, to quote the great Jewish behavioral scientist, Gad Saad, “Suicidal Empathy.” Misdirected compassion.

And here in California …well, I don’t want to name names, but…. don’t vote for Steyer or Becerra or Porter or Bass or Carbajal or…. the list is endless, and so is the damage they’ve inflicted because they pretend to be for you… but they are only for themselves and their corrupt ideology. Time for a “fundamental change” back to the fundamentals. Not too much to ask, is it? Just get the government out of the way and we’ll be more than fine. The Constitution will protect you and your freedom and the satisfaction of self-reliance, if you let it.

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(John Summer is just a regular guy who believes in goofy things like Family, Country, and God. If that’s not your thing, then you’re living in the wrong place. Maybe head to the north pole? But Santa won’t take care of you. He’s left town.)

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