Introduction--my political point of view.
I don't like labels, as all of them have been perverted. I am a 62 year old male, who has benefitted from being an American citizen as I knew it. I believe that, of the many political systems attempted throughout human history, the American system, with its Declaration of Independence, and Constitution with its Bill of Rights, has proven to degrade slowly over more than 200 years into a system which no longer meets the needs and desires of its people. But during much of that period, America became, in many ways, the greatest country in the world.
I consider the Constitution to be obvously imperfect, as a perfect system should have survived longer, with less degradation. However, I am not myself highly learned, and look up to the great men who wrote that Constitution. So, not being sure that I or anyone else could write a document which would work better, or for a longer period of time; I would personally rather return to the principles of that document, and if anyone has improvements to suggest, use that point as a starting point for improvement, and not try to improve it until we can return to it.
If we could accomplish the above, it would be an improvement so great over what we have in 2003 that I personally cannot countenance any idea that we should not return to Constitutional principles, but should instead try to "improve" it first.
Even the concept of returning to constitutional principles would require the very difficult task of unwinding the many perversions and distortions of its principles. This would be difficult in any real world scenario, and would have to be done carefully and in the right order, unless one could make a good case, both practical and philosophical, for total revolution. For example, many feel that the Constitution does not legalize an income tax, nor is that tax consistent with freedom. While I agree with that philosophy, I feel that a practical approach requires that we eliminate illegal expenditure of our money before we totally eliminate the illegal extortion of it.
As for what I believe we want or should want, or what concepts did produce and would produce a great country, I believe in freedom, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I am fully aware of the difficulties in changing our government in any way. Either we must do so by armed revolution, or through our present political process.
Armed revolution would be long, bloody, and require far more people than presently want it. Then we would have the job of replacing it with something (or nothing) which would work better.
As for changing the present system, the only hope is leaders who aren't associated with any party with an R or a D. All of both vote in lockstep for less freedom and more control of the populace. The best hope we have is to convince enough people that any vote for any R or D is a vote for more tyranny. To combine this with a belief that one should vote for candidates who would support the Constitution, and any vote for any R or D is a vote for slavery, just might get the majority (who doesn't even vote) to support peaceful revolution.
I know the above is a "long shot", and many will disagree with me, with myriad ideas from total anarchy to a different form of statism, but I challenge anyone to present a more possible plan.