There is no ‘we the people' except when the state needs us to cooperate with whatever new policy it has developed. The state is either threatened by outside enemies in which it needs the cooperation of the entire nation, or it is pandering to one jurisdiction by imposing more restraints and extortions on another. We are ‘the people’ only when it suits the interests of the state. Other than that, we are divided constituencies kept divided to benefit the state. In the final analysis there are the people who compose the state and benefit from the activities of the state, and those who are marginalized, because the state needs to fund its operations by turning what is rightfully private, into public property. We the people are composed of those who create private property and those who create public property. Our interests are not the same.
