In recent times, America seems to be on an imperialist drive, indicating its desire to control countries such as Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, and even Canada. It's unclear how serious America is about these sovereign nations, but it should be taken seriously, especially when the executive office expresses a desire to control more nations in what appears to be a deliberate imperialistic drive. Perhaps some Americans embrace it, desiring for America to be the boss of countries such as they were with the Philippines, or to essentially transfer territories such as was done with the Hawaiian Islands and subsequently make them a State.
America has been around for a long time, and the 1912 Democratic Party platform stated: “We reaffirm the position thrice announced by the Democracy in national convention assembled against a policy of imperialism and colonial exploitation in the Philippines or elsewhere.” This indicates that imperialism and colonial exploitation had been up for debate and discussion before, and that one political party was dead set against such, because that party believed that what this nation should concentrate its efforts upon was to take care of its own and not to unnecessarily involve America in disputes outside its domain and border, which thus meant American taxpayers having to suffer from those incumbent expenditures. In other words, the job of this government should be to focus first and foremost on keeping its own house in order, and not getting thereby involved in international affairs that were not necessary for domestic contentment. Rather, America, as a great nation, should lead by example and not fall into becoming a military might, imposing its will on foreign people, for exploitation or other reasons that were unbecoming of a great republic.
So then, when it comes to imperialism and the understanding of our Constitution, it should be recognized that the primary objective of this government should be to promote the general welfare of its people, and thereby to forsake its involvement in military foreign affairs and in particular, to not exhibit imperialism, which would thus keep this country strong and in control of its own domestic affairs, as contrasted to concentrating an undue amount of monies, personnel, and armaments in the defense of that imperialism, for empire building, which is anathema to our Constitutional principles.
The pressing problem that America has at present, is the unseemly amount of funding earmarked for its military affairs, of which this governance doesn’t seem to comprehend that monies devoted to the military which aren’t really for any defensive purpose, reflects thereby America’s desire to be an empire and through its implicit imperialistic desires this creates not only trouble with other nation-states, who would themselves prefer to remain sovereign and thus in charge of their own lot, but also that the expenditures so allocated, take away from the housing, infrastructure, and domestic tranquility that this nation owes to its own people. In other words, monies spent on imperialistic affairs are monies taken away from the people of America, and thus weaken its people, who are therefore prone to take out their frustration through civil unrest, because those that lack the accouterments so necessary to live a decent life, because that money has been allocated to imperialistic ambitions, have been cheated and they know it.