Is Anybody There, Does Anybody Care, Does Anybody See What I See?

Why does it seem that all great governments start out with the best of intentions and ultimately wind up in a state of despotism and decay?  They seem to grow exponentially at the expense of the governed.  As the power of the government grows the freedoms of its people shrink.  No doubt it is due at least in part to the fact that men are made a little lower than the angels.  Additionally I believe that it is due to the fact that the purpose of government, is to, well, govern.  Once the big decisions are made, the crucial laws of establishing a new nation are passed; the legislators don’t simply call it good and go home.  They start looking for more and more things to legislate and regulate.  The focus gets narrower and narrower.  They start meddling in more minutiae of the daily lives of the people.  Things that were never intended to come within the purview of a large, centralized federal government now become the focus of power-hungry legislators and bureaucrats, searching for any rationale for their continued existence in their cushy public sector jobs.  The tenants of the Declaration of Independence and the dictates of the Constitution devolve into mere nuisances to these government zealots.  These sacred documents which are intended to protect the people from these very government usurpers are tossed aside and ignored as antiquated meaningless historical trivia by them.  They claim that the documents have been misinterpreted, that they have evolved; that there are new penumbras and emanations; that they were written for a different time and a different people which certainly cannot apply and direct the government in today’s enlightened times.  They complain that the writers could not possibly have foreseen what a society would be dealing with two hundred years in the future, forgetting that there are two methods included for amending the Constitution just for these unforeseen circumstances.  It’s not the details for dealing with every possible issue which could arise that is important but rather the basic foundation of the government and the protection of the people’s freedoms and liberties which are paramount.  When one considers the far-reaching tentacles of the myriad executive branch agencies, the contortions the Supreme Court twists itself into in reaching conclusions completely at odds with the very text of the Constitution and the money that the Congress raises and prints to spend on things it has no constitutional authority to spend; it is astounding how far this national government has fallen off of its legal foundation.  It bears no resemblance to its original intent.  It is eating out the very fiber of our society.  Sadly it is the nature of a government is to grow, not shrink.  I think we might all be better off if the government had been constitutionally disbanded after its first fifty years of existence.  Surely by then all of the big national issues and legislation would have been dealt with and the rest after that could be left to the States, as should be.  The question before us is can we possibly go back?  Is it too late?  Are we too far gone?  Can one President or Congress or Court undue decades of subversion?  Are we destined to devolve into class warfare, race warfare and a complete unraveling of civil society while we sink into hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt for unfunded liabilities for which there is no hope of ever paying?  Without unwavering fealty to our foundational documents we are ship at sea in a storm with no rudder.  We are subject to the momentary whims of men, not laws.  This is the recipe for despotism, dictatorship, disaster, decay and destruction.  Are we destined to become a mere 250 year footnote in world history?  There once was a shining spot, called Camelot.