Starter pistol:

Ours is a nation formed under the decree of imperfect white men, with a broad understanding of their own history, and the foresight to let legacy guide action. As the forefathers collaborated in the drafting of a new form of governance, they found the strength in their well educated minds to find compromise among an invasive populous hindered by their own overwhelming sense of superiority. A nation would be born, free from the influence of bloated monarchs and religious institutions corrupted greed and intruding power. We would be a people legislated and ruled for and by the people. A living example of society for all others to strive for.

The document that would serve as a backbone to this new social experiment would need to be a living one, fluid and evolving to fit the passing time. Inclusion would become its true strength, a philosophy that would broaden in scope of acceptance as populous would mature with the eventual recognition of women, the remnants of the indigenous population, and former slaves to be within the term “people”, as I am sure at least a few of the framers intended.

Measures are woven into the text in an attempt to detour corruption of these expanding liberties, so that freedom not be inhibited as it would flourish and grow. The voice of the citizen electorate holds the reigns of progress, and thus the final check against an increasingly more intrenched structure of power, held by those less and less deserving, as each generation passes. A misdirection well overdue a massive correction, requiring an extreme shift in heading would be led by those who know the way best, “people”.

It is our turn to take charge. Our turn to meet the occasion. Our turn to prove we can keep this republic and prove the vision of those imperfect white men was just. As “people” we can hold America to its word, act in the strength of inclusion rather than paralyze ourselves with division, and equalize accountability restructuring the current systems of justice and modernize the mechanisms of control and allocation of resources to feed the needs of today’s “people”.

Ours is a nation, made more perfect through diverse concept and rampant innovation. We are today’s people in preparation for the welcoming of tomorrow’s. Our power is in ourselves and our trust should be the same. Our voice is the fuel for the action of promises kept. If we wrote the verses of America’s song, perhaps the value of indigenous cultures would have been appreciated rather than squandered, perhaps the will of the many would be the foundation for community rather than elite enrichment, and perhaps we could face today’s tragedies with leveled logic rather than reckless abandon masqueraded in smokescreens and propaganda to maintain an oppressive system of suppression through cultural division, where most of us settle for indentured servitude at the hands of corporate media masters fueled by alternative facts and underlying betrayal.

Or we rise. We take what is ours. We empower those forgotten as we once were. And we create the movement of our more perfect union.