The States and therefore their people were NOT going to ratify the US Constitution because they saw a centralized government as the worst evil on the Earth. The Bill of Rights was created to assure the States that their rights (and rights of their people) were unalienable and supreme and did come from man and therefor cannot be removed by same.
I guess some call it stupidity mixed with a serious case of narcissism, but I would call it forgetting history or not knowing it at all. At the very least, not understanding it. There was an impactful film, basically about the Pilgrims and especially their first winter called:
Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure (2012)
Ultimately in 1889 a monument to them was finished:
National Monument to the Forefathers (Built 1889)
...On the main pedestal stands the heroic figure of "Faith" with her right hand pointing toward heaven[5] and her left hand clutching the Bible. Upon the four buttresses also are seated figures emblematic of the principles upon which the Pilgrims founded their Commonwealth; counter-clockwise from the east are Morality, Law, Education, and Liberty...
In a nutshell: It was their blueprint to creating a better path of life.
The movie is a stark portrayal of what the "Pilgrims", actually called Saints or Separatists, endured to even get here (about 10 years), how they managed to barely survive the first winter (over 50% died) and how they enshrined their core beliefs to ultimately create a new, free way of living. Free meaning - free of a central government that controls everything. They spent years fleeing exactly that while risking their very lives to do so.
My point is thus: We forgot how steadfast and willing we were to risk everything while suffering immeasurable hardships in pursuit of our ideals, as Separatists, in pursuit of a better way of living and have instead set upon destroying and de-legitimizing the
5 core principles (underlined above) and become self-absorbed pussies that survive on hand outs and relegating commitment and self reliance to the very types of tyrants from which we fled in the first danged place. Those exact 5 principles have been under assault for a long time now. It is not by accident.
The exact number of fvcks to be given to these pussies? ZERO.