I think that today's United States is definitely not the one that the founding fathers wanted it to be. What is today's United States is like? First, the United States is very active on the world politics stage. Secondly, the US president has incredible power over the US domestic as well as foreign policies. Thirdly, the US national debts are growing bigger and bigger. To me and my understanding of the US constitution as well as the US history, this is not what the founding fathers wanted the US to be.
Why was the US founded in the first place? The US was founded because the tax hike in America was passed by the British government in London without consulting the Americans beforehand. The founding fathers did not like a powerful central government which could control individuals people as well as regions too much. This is why states were allowed to leave the United States and become independent; however, after the central government won the American Civil War, the states no long have the power to leave the states if they wish, of course, since the US is so powerful today that no state has the willingness to leave the US. In addition, the designs of the Congress and the electoral college system which the Democratic Party is crying to abolish aim to balance the power of individual states in the Congress that states with larger populations can have more influence than states with smaller populations but not too much influence that allows them to exploit small states. Furthermore, the founding fathers clearly stated that they did not like the idea of political parties; however, soon after the US was initially founded, the Republican and the Democratic parties were founded. Moreover, the world wars, especially the Second World War, and the later Cold war gave much more power to the US president to control the US foreign policies.
Overall, the central government has grown too much more powerful, though this is something that the founding fathers did not want to see.
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