Reply (add-on) to Bill’s latest, the Fatal Flaw in the Constitution

Fatal Flaw

I KNEW it would happen, sooner or later!  My political thought aligns with several Conservative voices:  Evan Sayet, Candace Owens, the late William F. Buckley, the late Milton Friedmann, the late Ronald Reagan, and, most notably, the late Calvin Coolidge.  But sometimes, my thought process goes its own way, for better or worse.  And today, I got a new example of this phenomenon.  Let’s dig.

First, let me state for the record:  Bill Whittle is one of the finest voices of the Conservative movement, if not the very best.  He articulates freedom and Constitutional principles as well as anyone alive.  If you haven’t heard him on YouTube or Rumble, in programs such as ‘Firewall’, ‘Afterburner’, ‘Right Angle’, and the like, please search for them.  His take on many current-day topics either challenges me to think, or gets me yelling ‘YEAH’ at his approaches.  From gun rights to risk-taking to how systems work (or should work), Bill cuts past the BS and gets to the root of most matters.  Pure genius, IMHO.

Second, today’s Bill Whittle video, titled ‘JUSTICE: Hillary, Epstein and Cuomo Reveal the U.S. Constitution’s Single Point of Failure’ is not only well worth the watch, but is absolutely correct—as far as it goes.  He states that the failure point of the Constitution resides in the Department of Justice.  Since the DOJ reports to the President (and, by extension, the FBI, too), a corrupt President can and has turned the DOJ into a political arsenal, attacking political opponents and ignoring charging political allies of the President (or whomever appointed the leaders of the DOJ).  Mr. Whittle states that the only way to correct such abuse and corruption is to do away with the entire branch, and start over.  On this, we agree.  But this is a symptom of a disease, not the disease itself, IMHO.

Bill misses a very important point here:  the President (and Congress, for that matter) shouldn’t have the abilities to run their offices illegally anyway.  And if you subjectively, inconsistently, randomly, and maliciously apply the law, you are, by definition, operating illegally.  The real problem:  The PEOPLE have  NO OVERSIGHT for these elected officials, once in office.  NONE.  We can vote out elected officials, but only if they are accidentally from our district or State.  And we have even less control over the appointed officeholders.  If one of ‘theirs’ breaks the law, they can do so KNOWING they will never be charged of a crime:  see HRC, several FBI directors, Hunter Biden, and the list goes on.  Exceed Constitutional authority (see:  mask mandates, vaccination demands, opening up the Southern US border, etc.), there is no worry that a check or balance will stop you.  I, for one, do not want to risk the miracle of electing the right President to clean up this corruption mess.  Nor do I want to shrug my shoulders and admit defeat when an obviously criminal President bends or breaks every rule, just because they are of another party, or that their party happens to control enough government to avoid any recourse.

The US Constitution attempted to restrain each of the three branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial) by pitting them as watchdogs on the other two.  But all three branches have been overstepping or ignoring their Constitutional limits for decades.  Relying upon them to police each other can now be listed as a categorical failure.  Perhaps the Founders were expecting moral, better people to man such offices, but the reality is what we have to deal with.  The real question:  what are we prepared to do to correct this nonsense?  Hint:  a revolution was fought in 1776 for less.