It’s not “we the people”. It’s “we the USAians”. That kind of mindless nationalism is how we got here (genocide, refugee cleansing, etc). It’s a source of fascism, not a solution.
I don’t understand your comment. Are you saying that the phrase “we the people” is nationalist? If so, I’d disagree. It’s the first few words of the preamble to the constitution. It would be strange if the constitution didn’t specifically refer to the United States citizens. “We the people” isn’t saying “USA first,” it’s a callback to the ideal that every American citizen should be equal, without kings, as other similar documents defining the government of monarchies would be under some monarch’s authority, not “the people.” Whether that ideal has been upheld or not is a different conversation entirely, but the phrase itself as a rejection of monarchy and oligarchy is a good message to repeat against Trump and Elon.
The exact line of the preamble of The United States Constitution is “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,…”
It’s a direct allusion to the United States’ foundational document, and rephrasing that allusion does not make it less nationalist.
It’s also a document which many US citizens strongly identify with, and they are invoking that phrase explicitly to gain rapoire and support from those US citizens. Rephrasing “We the People” would only dilute that virtue signal and lower its efficacy.
It’s not “we the people”. It’s “we the USAians”. That kind of mindless nationalism is how we got here (genocide, refugee cleansing, etc). It’s a source of fascism, not a solution.
I don’t understand your comment. Are you saying that the phrase “we the people” is nationalist? If so, I’d disagree. It’s the first few words of the preamble to the constitution. It would be strange if the constitution didn’t specifically refer to the United States citizens. “We the people” isn’t saying “USA first,” it’s a callback to the ideal that every American citizen should be equal, without kings, as other similar documents defining the government of monarchies would be under some monarch’s authority, not “the people.” Whether that ideal has been upheld or not is a different conversation entirely, but the phrase itself as a rejection of monarchy and oligarchy is a good message to repeat against Trump and Elon.
The exact line of the preamble of The United States Constitution is “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,…”
It’s a direct allusion to the United States’ foundational document, and rephrasing that allusion does not make it less nationalist.
It’s also a document which many US citizens strongly identify with, and they are invoking that phrase explicitly to gain rapoire and support from those US citizens. Rephrasing “We the People” would only dilute that virtue signal and lower its efficacy.