We, the people need to wakeup -Have we abandoned our founding father's ideals.?

Question

We have become a divided nation and seem to have forgotten that:

Thomas Jefferson believed that government was the greatest, if not only, threat to individual liberty. He wrote that "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. This is so because those who gain positions of power tend always to extend the bounds of it. Power must always be constrained or limited else it will increase to the level that it will be despotic.

From the Declaration of Independence- Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Answer 1

Yes sir we celebrated the fall of the communist in the USSR now we deal with the greed of a capitalist society.We have laws being passed as payment in kind for lobbyist support to keep the corrupt politicians in office.We have laws passed for corporations instead of the people. the government itself has enacted more laws and helped itself to more and more power using fear to have people allow it to gain power such as an alleged war on terror. We have already had a war on drugs which enabled the law to supersede constitutional rights now we can deem someone a terrorist and leave them without due process.We have media which is supported by advertisers which is to say "Corporate America" slanting the news so that people buy into the whole safety is worth surrendering your rights. We have a nation which believes in rewriting the Geneva Convention in favor of torture we now have military tribunals for those enemy combatants that are not considered prisoners of war because we are only at war when it is convenient for the government to call it war as in when they want to deny citizens their civil liberties no more privacy we live in dangerous times. The real danger is We the people will not wake up in time to stop this current trend toward a fascist government.

Answer 2

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"

Arguably, that would be the position Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy had during the secession, but Lincoln was willing to send troops to war to prevent some of the people from instituting new.

My point: today is nothing new, and isn't even the worst division this country has seen. Our deviation from the Founding Father's original vision began when they made compromises to allow slavery in the very beginning.

Answer 3

At this point, I'd say that we have. Sad isn't it? I'm sure the founding fathers are rolling in their graves right now.

Frankly, I don't see things improving in the near future. In less this country gets a president we can all agree on. (Like that will ever happen...)

Answer 4

The republicans have quietly declared all out war on it, while trying to divert our attention with chest thumping and saber rattling.

Answer 5

Those ideal have been warped by the Bush junta, stepped on it by the PNAC and disregarded by the neocons. f your founding fathers would be alive today, they would tar and feather the Bush junta and hang each and one of them in the town square.

Answer 6

Like slavery and systematic anhilation of native Americans?

Answer 7

We have enemy of this nation and what the founding fathers envisioned. It's called socialism and they have taken over the Democrat Party and have been hell bent on destroying this nation at every turn.