we the people with our destiny manifested

I often wonder what’s happening to America. A nation: “an Empire in many respects the most interesting in the world,” built on the premise of “general liberty and independence” (Federalist 1 and 2). Although today, discombobulated, and devoid of original intent. A country, in its current incarnation, the antithesis of the original. One that’s becoming inherently evil through those elected, who swore to uphold and defend, now desirous to reimagine yet again. I was raised in a time that bespoke America great, the protector of the weak, a purveyor of truth. Or does truth bely a lie of intent, making “one nation under God,” in actuality, a realm of hidden deviant deceit? An oxymoron of conflicts; one being the action of strength by aggression, in lieu of peace through strength. But what dictates the designed truth of intent? Does one study history to discern fact, or rely on another’s presentation of false narratives?

So, as national and world events continue to unfold, I wonder if the push for war over Israel’s end will be a mirror image of America’s future. One party’s resolve to inflict on another country the change it wants of its own country: a divided state. Or Ukraine, another thread of contention, the desire to drag America into another conflict that will have no end: Vietnam reimagined. A threat of nuclear Armageddon, the impetus to send thousands of youths to their death, sans any clear reason why America should involve itself or present an endgame objective to achieve a win defined. Or is the objective an endgame to enrich a war machine, both literally and figuratively. And those citizens who still “Stand with Ukraine:” Will they grab a weapon and put their life on the line, or volunteer their own children to sacrifice their lives for a cause they do not understand?

Both conflicts being a history of recycled repeated injury of an intentional government induced infliction. Yet, through war, America itself evolved from one of being subjugated to commanding world power. What has grown into an aggressive desire to control what it has no power to control, while professing a greatness of national self, the defender of democracy in one conflict, with a forced desire to decide the direction of a nation in the other. Yes, America, the nation, born from the ashes of war, designed for the purpose of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence), hiding on full display an obvious evil intent of imperialism. And as the euphoric high of dominant strength induces even more desire, like an addict unable to break their habit, the magic elixir of power having been consumed, ask yourself, could any good really be extant?

The adage – to the victor goes the spoils, dictates who writes history, begging, was the version taught when I was in school truth, a lie, or only an intent to deceive. Whereas, is the supposed truth spoken today the lie, based on a repressive history of a nation inherently good, only manipulated by party for power, a grab for ultimate control, most never knowing which side attempts to obtain it, yet: It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans (Federalist 4).

In 1950, the book – Your Rugged Constitution debuted. An instruction manual for the masses to understand the premise of the foundation laid to carry the nation through perpetuity - “a more perfect Union,” from the failings of a less than perfect one. One of many paragraphs spoke: The United States loves peace and works within the United Nations and in many other ways to keep peace in the world. But we have the strength to fight hard against our enemies, whether they threaten all the states or only one of them. This is called the “common defense.” Partly because our Constitution has wise plans for the common defense, our country has never lost a war in all its history.

Sadly, of the books misguided beliefs on multiple fronts, since the first printing, America has lost politically every conflict its perpetrated on itself. Korea, like Vietnam, then Iraq and Afghanistan, all abject failures. The warriors, having been betrayed by their own government, making history, and national disgrace, a vicious cycle of truth to lies, and lies to truth: The causes of hostility among nations are innumerable. There are some which have a general and almost constant operation upon the collective bodies of society. Of this description are the love of power or the desire of pre-eminence and dominion – the jealousy of power, or the desire of equality and safety (Federalist 6).

The Constitution’s preamble laid the groundwork: WE THE PEOPLE … three words that most Americans have no idea the design and intent of , the importance thereof, or the concept which, the power each citizen holds in their hands … in Order to form a more perfect Union … the result of an initially rushed and failing concept, shifting from thirteen independent and barely united States to thirteen fully united but independently connected States, … establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, … safety and security … provide for the common defense … the desire not to provoke war … promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity … self-determination against those of imperialist desire, the Framer’s having lived through the subjugation of their freedoms through imperialism.

To close, America should be a nation united, strong, yet fragile, its design, dependent on the will of the people to ensure the power and national direction is not usurped by those entrusted to defend and protect, as they supposedly preserve and uphold the Constitution for future posterity to enjoy. Although history has proven those in power desire more power: autarchy or absolute power. There have been presidents, past and present, and their desire is/was to be known as “war presidents,” displaying a cognitive dissonance between their fealty to the oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and their desire for immortality. A willingness to sacrifice thousands, to preserve their place in history. I often wonder, can a government spiritually, morally, and fiscally corrupt survive its intent to betray? Or, as now proposed by those in control; be dismantled, destroyed, disposed of, or pushed into another war of deceit. If history has any truth to bear … it can’t.