Sam Adams and his fellow "revolutionaries," with big help from George Washington, raised a private army (paid for by the rich and greedy people) to smash Shays's Rebellion. Sam Adams called for hanging the rebels! (So much for the great revolutionary.)
George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were furious at the "little" people west of the Appalachian Mountains for daring to oppose the federal government in the name of the ideas propounded in the Declaration of Independence. These founding fathers mobilized an army with upper-class a**hole officers and drafted "little" people--an army of almost 3,000 soldiers (about as many as who followed General Washington against King George III)--to violently crush the "little" people in the Whiskey Rebellion--a rebellion against extreme oppression by these rich and greedy people.
When these rich and greedy people got together in 1787 to write the Constitution, it was for the purpose of making sure they had a government that, unlike the weak one based on the Articles of Confederation, would be able to crush the "little" people; they were scared to death of Shays's Rebellion that had only just been suppressed the year before. Fear of another, God forbid successful, Shays's rebellion dominated the conversations of these founding fathers, as Charles Beard demonstrates. The people in the Shays's and Whiskey rebellions understood this: they called themselves anti-federalists and friends of liberty.
But nowadays, the ruling class has us viewing these "Founding Fathers" as if they were great and noble men. BS! It's as if, some time in the future, Americans were taught that the Bush family and the Koch brothers and the Clintons were great and noble people.
Libertarianism is not the answer either. The libertarians don't CARE whether there is class inequality or not. You can read about this in "Libertaria: A Libertarian Paradise" and "Mom and Pop Capitalism?"
What most Americans want, even if they don't know its name yet, is egalitarianism. "Honoring the U.S. Constitution" sounds good when it's used as a slogan to oppose what the rich are doing to the rest of us, but it's a very misleading slogan that doesn't lead to what most people really want--an end to class inequality.
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