You covered significant ground and make some fair points, particularly about the crony capitalism that has manifested in our country, however, there are certain fundamental philosophical positions underpinning the Constitution that if altered would end the United States. You may think that sounds hyperbolic, but I do not believe it is. The United States was founded on the ideas of individual liberty, natural rights of man, respect for private property, and free enterprise. It goes all the way back to the Declaration of Independence and followed through in the Constitution. If you alter these ideas, then the country falls. Now of course the people will still be here and there would be some sort of government after. That new government may have been elected by the people and may still call itself the United States, but it would not be the same.
I have come to believe that the modern Democrat party does not believe in individual liberty. Instead they have a collectivist mindset. This is evident by the philosophical underpinnings of the party, by the words of Democrats elected to office, and by the votes they cast.
The leaders of the modern Democrat party have adopted a platform steeped in neo-Marxist ideas. The Democrat’s embrace of various Critical Theories provides solid evidence. Their platform is covered in the fingerprints of Marcuse, Foucault, Derrida, Bell, Crenshaw, Freire, and the more current DiAngelo and Kendi. Whether Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Postcolonialism, they are all the practical application of the Critical Theory of the postmodernist. They do not believe in truth. They only believe in power wielded by the government. That is the underpinning of the modern Democrat party.
The words of the leaders of the modern Democrat party provide further evidence. They speak in terms of problematic discourses, systemic racism, and equity. They play games with language deconstructing Western civilization. Words become violence and actual violence becomes legitimate protest. There is no definition of man or woman. Equality becomes oppression and equity is fair, but equity means taking from one to give to another. In other words, Marxist redistribution with less focus on class, now favoring group identity. The votes of the modern Democrat party are fully in agreement with their words. The Build Back Better Bill was chock full of expanded benefits financed by debt.
In the end, the philosophy of the modern Democrat party is incompatible with the pillars of the Constitution. They do not believe in limited government, separation of powers, and individual rights. The Constitution as drafted by the Founders cannot stand in the utopia they envision because it is an impediment, especially the Second Amendment. Therefore, I believe they do want America, or at least the country I know, defined by the Constitution, to fall. What’s more, they are taking steps that will hasten the fall. The long list is extensive, but to name a few: burdening the nation with debt, stoking racial and class animosity, creating dependency on the government through ever expanding entitlements, unrestrained illegal immigration, expanding the vote to minors and non-citizens, refusing to enforce the law or prosecute criminal offenders, policies that exacerbate homelessness (while spending billions), confiscatory wealth taxes, and ballooning the federal bureaucracy. That is why some, myself included, feel it is important to defend the Constitution.
I agree that the Republican party is not the best defender of the ideals of America, however, they are not directly opposed to those ideals as is the modern Democrat party in my estimation.