The Great Dam of 1789

One purpose for building dams is to prevent flooding. Someone realized that flooding was a problem with a location in the past, and realized it could be a problem in the future. So they built a dam. Our constitution is a lot like a dam. Men who put a lot of thought into tyranny realized it was a problem and founded a government to prevent it in the future.

There is a lie that our government is a patriarchy designed to support white men, that it's oppressive. That claim is false. White men owned slaves; white men also helped free them. White men raped women; white men also put white men in jail for rape. White men make all the money; white men also set up the systems so anyone can capitalize on markets. Is the later group more woke than the former? If they are, it's because the Constitution allowed them to be. Tyranny isn't a race, it's a fight for power. If white men were purely tyrannical, they wouldn't have given it up.

Some say it's outdated. Every house gets leaks, but a crack in the pipes isn't a reason to tear it down. Any system of government is bound to produce problems for its citizens, that's why our government was designed to be minimalistic. Less government, less problems it creates for its people.

Some say the mechanisms in our government are too slow, inefficient, or not fairly representative. The two party system seems it has resulted in a tug-of-war on policy. Would the nation be better off if one side controlled all the power? What if more sides were represented? Out of 40 other political parties, the Nazi's claimed the highest percentage of seats when they came to power. In other words, they held a popular vote of 37%. The bi-partisan system is in itself compromise and halts extremism. Moreover, if we combined our Executive branch with our legislative branch, then that new combined branch could appoint the judges of the judicial branch (the ones who can declare laws unconstitutional). In other words, the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches, although slow, prevents total power of all three.

I once had a boss who enjoyed making my job hard. He felt threatened by me because I would speak up against him. He soon fired me. Later, my friend held my former position. She got the short end of the stick. He'd get mad at her if she wasn't busy. So he'd tell her to go get coffee. While she was getting coffee, he'd tell her to hurry up. Then when she'd get back, he'd say he didn't want it anymore. It was all just a mind game for his fun and benefit. Power does that to people. The constitution isn't a mechanism for power, it's a braking system. If we got rid of it today, we might still have good people running the show, for a time. It doesn't always rain, but one day it will. And if it does, let's hope it doesn't flood.