If I Love the Constitutional Goals, Then What Should I Hate?

The Constitution’s stated goals are in the Preamble: a more perfect Union, justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare, and the blessings of liberty for living and for posterity.

If those are the ends you actually love, the consistent opposites are what undermine them:

Disunion and factionalism that treat the country as a temporary alliance of tribes rather than a single people under one law.

Injustice—unequal application of law, corruption of courts, or rule by status instead of by rules.

Disorder that the government fails to suppress: endemic crime, riots, or private violence that makes ordinary life insecure.

Weakness or neglect of the common defense, whether through under-preparation or through policies that invite attack.

Capture of government by narrow interests that substitute private gain or ideological projects for the general welfare.

Erosion of liberty—concentrated, unaccountable power, whether from the executive, the administrative state, or majorities that treat rights as optional.

Short-term extraction that loads unsustainable debt, institutional decay, or demographic/fiscal burdens onto the next generations.

Those are not partisan labels. They are the direct negations of the six purposes the document itself names. Loving the goals therefore requires opposing whatever actually produces their opposites, regardless of who is doing it or what slogan they use.

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