There are those people who naively believe that the Constitution protects their rights. They are dangerously mistaken.
Consider what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse. He shot and killed one man, quite righteously, and blew a good bit of another's arm away, also with propriety pursuant to his right to defend his life against destruction, in his case at the hands of a raging mob. Though he was acquitted, look at what he was put through by the "system" that ostensibly exists to protect his rights equally with those of all other people. He should never have been charged in the first place, but the local prosecutor, one Thomas Binger, is a corrupt Democrat who aimed to make political points upon Rittenhouse's bones. The Constitution failed to protect Rittenhouse from malicious prosecution, and the fact that he was acquitted makes no hay in mitigation of that fact. Rittenhouse's acquittal was a pure crap shoot. He could as easily been convicted and the Constitution would have been nowhere, far too many people content to say "the system worked". It worked alright, the way a car that's about to throw a rod through the engine block works. The system failed up front and that is the salient fact. Binger should since have been disbarred, disgraced, charged, tried, convicted, and at the very least sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for his vicious and malevolent choice of action. The facts of the case were clear and he knew them, yet chose to bring charges anyway on the apparent assumption that he would scam the trial, secure a conviction, and parade around as the champion of Wisconsin justice for all his friends on the left, no matter how utterly he destroyed the life of an innocent young man. For that, I would have no problem seeing him pay ignominiously with his life on the gallows.
What so many seem to be missing is the fact that those in positions of Public Trust are not the solution. We are. We are "government", and not those holding political positions, who are mere administrators in whom we have vested our trust to discharge their duties with honorable faith and good competence. When they violate that trust, we are obliged by all that is humanly correct to remove them from their positions, hold them accountable for their misdeeds, and punish them with grim severity commensurate with their crimes. Long prison terms under the most basic conditions and turns at the gallows are all that such people understand and respect as matters of the personality type, generally speaking. Until we cut the crap and start acting like adults who take their responsibilities to themselves and their fellows seriously, nothing is going to change for the better over the longer term. The time for enlightened self-interest is upon us and the time is here for we Americans to choose. Trump will one day leave office and then what? The next scoundrel comes in and undoes everything that was achieved? The only constant in all this political coming and going is us. We the people remain as Theye pass in and out of power. We abide. We hold the actual power, which seemingly belongs to the political class only by virtue of the fact that we comply with the orders of our servants against us, no matter that those order may be or how absurdly criminal. We are the masters, but in order to be that, we must act like it, which means no more blind compliance with the blatantly criminalistic orders and regulations that issue, once again to beat a dead horse, from servants. Is anyone not clear on this?
Until we take the bull by the balls and teach it who is actually boss in simple language that anyone can understand no matter how mentally or morally deficient they may be, we will continue riding the roller coaster of tyranny and political crime.
I would start with a fitting 28th Amendment. It will likely never become Law, of course, but at least it gives people something to think about. The bottom line is this: until we hold people in such positions to a stern and unyielding standard of ethical comportment, nothing is going to change substantially, save for the worse. Until we begin public executions of those who violate the rights of those to whom they swore solemn oaths of good faith and competent service, there shall exist no incentive for political office holders to do anything better than abuse us in the most felonious ways. Political agents must be given every reason to remain on the straight and narrow, the mere thought of wandering leaving them with the most dread-inspiring sense of terror. The threat of coming to ignominious death on the end of a rope in the presence of not more than three other human beings and a chilling absence of any fanfare or other attention will indeed act at a deterrent for most tyrannical action. Those few true psychopaths who insist on ignoring the abundantly broadcast warnings against transgression would serve are the occasional reminder of what awaits those who break their oaths.
The manifold and grave mistreatments we suffer are completely on us. Blaming politicians for being corrupt is like blaming a snake for biting; it tends to be in the nature of those who seek such positions. If you let the snake bite, the blame rests you. The sane and self respecting man shoots when the snake threatens, and so it must be with political creatures. We should be willing to allow them to serve us in many of the mundane tasks of governance if for no other reason than efficiency's sake. We should, however, instantly snap the jaws of just punishment upon those who violate in even the most seemingly insignificant ways because no violation of the Public Trust is insignificant. Draconian punishment for all politicians who have gone off the reservation. Kill them and do it with neither rancor nor regret, but only with the cold indifference of the man set to completing an essential task, regardless of how unpleasant it might otherwise be.
