Sydney Carton, Esq.

The American Republic is in deep fucking trouble when a generation of arrogant, power-hungry political assholes decides the Constitution's greatest flaw is that it keeps getting in their goddamn way. The Founders deliberately made political power difficult to exercise because they understood exactly what happens when ambitious bastards face no meaningful restraints. Apparently, that lesson is too fucking complicated for today's self-anointed progressive saviors. The Democratic Socialists of America want the Senate abolished. Across the progressive left, the Electoral College is an outrage, the Supreme Court needs restructuring whenever its decisions offend progressive sensibilities, federalism is an intolerable obstacle, and constitutional checks and balances are treated like irritating bureaucratic bullshit. And these sanctimonious pricks have the fucking audacity to call dismantling those protections democratic progress. Here's what these constitutional vandals refuse to understand: winning an election gives politicians temporary authority to govern. It doesn't make them kings, grant them ownership of the Republic, or entitle them to bulldoze every institution capable of telling their arrogant asses NO. Constitutional rights exist because majorities can become tyrannical. Independent institutions exist because politicians are ambitious, self-serving creatures who cannot be trusted to restrain themselves. Federalism exists because concentrating enormous power in Washington creates a magnificent fucking prize for whichever faction manages to seize control. Start tearing down those barriers, and the consequences become increasingly dangerous. Weaken the Senate. Undermine competing institutions. Concentrate authority in Washington. Transfer power into permanent bureaucracies increasingly insulated from voters. Eventually, the same political faction can influence the institutions exercising power and the mechanisms supposedly keeping that power accountable. And through every stage of this constitutional demolition derby, the same smug assholes will lecture Americans about how they're saving democracy. Saving democracy by making it easier for the government to do whatever the fuck it wants? What breathtaking, historically illiterate arrogance. Madison understood that political ambition doesn't magically become harmless because the people demanding more power claim to possess superior morals, enlightened intentions, or the correct ideological credentials. That's precisely why the Constitution places barriers between ambitious politicians and unchecked authority. And those barriers become most important when the people holding office are absolutely convinced their own righteousness makes restraint unnecessary. The moment Americans accept that constitutional protections can be discarded whenever their preferred political faction finds them inconvenient, they've handed every future power-hungry bastard the same permission. Because once constitutional liberty depends on whether you happen to approve of the assholes running the government, the Republic has already surrendered its most important defense against tyranny. And the arrogant motherfuckers demanding that surrender are demonstrating exactly why the Founders built those defenses in the first place. (article below)