It’s Time to Acknowledge That the Constitution Is a Document of White Supremacy

From the day of our births, Americans are groomed and indoctrinated to regard the Constitution as a sacred text. It’s supposed to “protect” the rights and freedoms we never truly get to experience. Today, you can’t say what you want, you don’t have control of your body, you don’t have privacy, and the military is likely on its way to your city.All of this is pretty strong evidence that the Constitution has failed.Or is it?Maybe what’s going on today is exactly what the Constitution was designed to do. After all, it was written by a small group of rich and entitled white slave owners who wanted to preserve their own wealth.That’s the true purpose of the Constitution. When they wrote “We the people” they actually meant the royal “we.” They didn’t ever intend for that “we” to include native Americans, or women or members of the Black community. It didn’t even include poor people. “We the people” refers to rich, white men only. It always has. The only “freedom” they meant to protect was their own right to personal wealth.Maybe it’s time we subjected the Constitution to the process of legal discovery to determine whether or not the narrative we’ve been sold actually has any connection to reality.The ideology of men who owned slavesOur reverence for the Founding Fathers is deliberately deployed to make us overlook what objectively reprehensible people they were. They were child rapists. They were child traffickers. That’s what it means to be an owner of human beings.These cruel and privileged men got together and compiled everything they knew about human nature in order to conceive of a new form of government. The problem is that their minds were corrupted by perverse justifications for their own thoroughly practiced and ingrained inhumanity.They concluded that the very worst person in any society would inevitably rise to power. So, they didn’t even try to write a Constitution that might oppose evil men. That’s why there’s nothing to prohibit a convicted felon from running for office.Instead, their “solution” was to scatter power all around, so that other loathsome individuals could gather up enough for themselves. This strategy was based on their trust in the idea that power mad sociopaths would never surrender their tiny little scrap of authority to a tyrant.But all we have to do is look at modern society to see that the Founding Fathers fundamental assumption was incorrect. Evil people can work together to consolidate absolute power for a single oppressor. Clearly, the Founding Fathers did not understand the true complexity of human nature, and it’s time we correct their mistake.The incomplete science of 1776The Constitution actually was a leap forward in its time. But based on the understanding of psychology we have today, it’s fundamentally flawed. It creates a horrible government that’s designed to give power to the absolute worst people. This is because the men who owned slaves assumed that everyone’s heart and mind was as corrupted as theirs.That is not the case.It’s also important to note that evil, too, is capable of transforming into something worse. The safeguards contained in the Constitution have proven insufficient because the men who wrote them didn’t include the guardrails that would have prevented absolute corruption from coming to power.That’s what we need.We need a government that doesn’t strive to placate the power mad by giving them incomplete authority. We need a government that prevents power mad people from obtaining any kind of important office at all.Our Constitution is fundamentally flawed.Evil is taught, it’s not human natureThe problem with conservatives is that they’ve got human nature all wrong. Their beliefs are enforced by tradition and our reverence for the Founding Fathers, but those are fabricated justifications for an inaccurate belief.The Founding Fathers had indoctrinated themselves to believe they had some sort of right to claim dominion over other human beings. They went on to build the framework of a false philosophy designed to excuse their own repugnant behavior by attempting to claim that all human beings are fundamentally evil.“Anyone in my position would have done the same,” is the corrupt assumption at the foundation of their ideological monument of deceit.The idea of checks and balances is a good one. But the assumption of essential human corruption is woefully shortsighted. We need to add a mechanism to the Constitution that will ensure that our leaders are selected from the pool of good and decent people living among us, and no other.Failing to add that kind of apparatus to our founding documents is as absurd as building a race car without a steering wheel.We can do betterFor a quarter of a millennium, the Constitution has failed to deliver on its promises. Basing a government on the inherent cruelty of humanity creates a glass ceiling, and also denies the citizens access to the tools necessary to break through. For decades, our ceiling was higher than that of other nations, so we rejoiced. But today, we find ourselves pressed up against the pane, while the citizens of other countries have freedoms beyond our ability to obtain.The time has come to accept that we have an obligation to humanity to not just work around cruelty, and delude ourselves into assuming its inevitability. We must instead roll up our sleeves and build a system that rewards and elevates basic human decency.The Constitution was written at the onset of the scientific age. We didn’t have peer review. We didn’t have the enlightened comprehension that comes from scientific exploration. The Constitution was written during an era of superstition. Many of the truths the Founding Fathers held to be self-evident, were nothing more than self-serving delusions.It’s time to recognize that a nation founded on the concept of placating or enduring injustice and evil can only contribute to further and more terrible atrocities. We are in desperate need of a new philosophy in government. One that doesn’t begrudgingly accept the flawed nature of humanity, but instead demands the elevation of decency and dignity.We can no longer afford to submit to the commands of abusers and butchers. We need to find the resolve to demand representation from decent, kind, accomplished, rational, reasonable, honest, and compassionate leaders.This is the next evolution in popular governance. For too long we’ve accepted the assertion that human beings are bad. But this assertion itself came from bad people. Good people have never had the opportunity to respond.Now’s the time.We must seize the benefits of a more enlightened ageThere is much within the Constitution that continues to function. But the notion that all men are evil at their core is an assumption that’s fundamental to the ideology of white supremacy. This belief must be surgically removed from our government, our national ideology, and all our venerated traditions. We do not have to accept that all people are evil and that corruption is inevitable just because that’s what men who owned human slaves convinced themselves to be true.The Constitutional congress did not have the input of Native Americans, or women, or Black men, or hardworking people who spent their whole lives dwelling in poverty. They, too, have insight into the truth of the human condition. They, too, have a right to participate in their governance. It’s time to correct the longstanding injustice of their omission.You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! I have payment tiers starting at as little as twenty dollars a year.Upgrade at 30% offUpgrade at 40% offUpgrade at 50% offUpgrade at 60% offI’m so happy you’re here, and I’m looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you tomorrow.My CoSchedule referral linkHere’s my referral link to my preferred headline analyzer tool. 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