Understanding the Core Cultural Values of the American Middle and Working Class As the Foundation of a New American Constitution
The American middle and working class—broadly encompassing manufacuring production workers, skilled craft and trades people, small business owners, entrepreneurs, all service and support workers, and mid-level professional salaried workers, share values rooted in the founding principles of Liberty, as written by Jefferson.
They continue to believe that these principles are the social glue that holds citizens in this nation together in a shared national mission.
These values shape their political and cultural opinions. These core values are:
Individual Self-Reliance and Individual Responsibility:
- Middle and working-class Americans prioritize personal initiative, hard work, and accountability. They value earning their way by working and see individual effort as the path to success, reflecting a belief in meritocracy.
- This social class believe in the principles of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, and assume that the U. S. Constitution exists to protect and defend their liberties.
- They believe in fair constitutional rules that protect individual economic freedom and reward individual effort, such as fair tax policies or limits on bureaucratic overreach.
Local Community and Local Government:
These Americans value strong family ties, tight-knit communities, local institutions (e.g., churches, schools, civic groups), and mutual support when members of their community have suffered a loss.
- They often distrust distant, centralized authority and prefer city, county and state governance that respond to local needs.
- They participate in town hall meetings, attend local government meetings, volunteer for local causes, or support neighborhood businesses.
- They favor a decentralized constitutional political power and strengthening citizen participation in local governance.
- They seek fairness in the application of economic and legal rules, distrusting complex policies that seem to favor elites.
- They resent tax codes or regulations that appear rigged to benefit corporations or insiders, favoring simple, equitable rules.
- They favor methods of recourse against transgressions and government bureaucratic over-reach or by distant large corporations.
Traditional Moral American Values:
The American working and middle class share traditional moral and cultural values like family, faith, and personal integrity, seeing these as stabilizing forces in social order, when all citizens share these common values.
- They believe in the traditional moral rule of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
- They believe that all citizens are endowed by God with equal natural rights, which is the basis of their belief in the principle of equality under the law.
- They continue to place emphasis on trust in personal and business relationships, and the moral value of honesty in business transactions.
- They believe that the nation was founded upon shared cultural and moral values, and that the nation is unique in world history for its defense of individual liberty.
These traditional American working and middle class values are under attack from a well-organized, and well-funded global ruling class elite who seek to eliminate American national sovereignty, in favor of a one-world global government.
This one-world government ideology uses wedge issues, like racial division, climate change, and the goodness of Marxism to promote their agenda.
One major advantage of the ruling class elite is that see themselves as having a common set of goals, based upon a common understanding of their social class interests.
The broad middle and working classes do not have a class awareness of their own interests, and the ruling class works hard to keep those citizens from ever forming a united political movement.
Their use of wedge issues is designed to prevent the middle class from ever forming what Marx described as “social class consciousness.
Madison’s current constitution is too weak and ineffective in confronting this globalist threat to liberty because the globalists have bought off elected representative and agencies of the deep state.
Madison’s careful system of checks and balances no longer works because elected representatives no longer represent the interests of the voters who elected them.
Our website is intended to help the middle and working class begin to see themselves as a united social class, organized to attain fair constitutional rules.
Our website uses the phrase “Spirit of Liberty,” to describe our mission to restore America’s original promise through constitutional reform for fair rules, made by the people, for the people.
We invite you to join us in our mission of constitutional reform, and encourage your participation in our discussion forums to connect with other like-minded citizens.
