Dear Founders of the United States of America, authors of the Constitution:

You put your very best effort into creating a binding document that would see us through every possible situation that could destroy the country.

Alas, you failed to consider the possibility that one party could gain so much power and be so lacking in morality that they could give carte blanche to presidential, legislative, and judicial corruption.

And that corruption pretty much burned up that document you tried so hard to make as perfect as humanly possible.

I don't blame you, however. You were idealists [mostly] and believed that while a few people could be corrupt and do some damage, you spread the power across 3 institutions, believing no one could possibly take over all those institutions and make them bend to the will of a demagogue and his foreign puppeteers.

You believed that most people who went into public service would be moral, & would conscientiously ensure that lawbreaking--once discovered and proven--would and could be punished, and no single group of politicians would ever have enough power to render your lovely constitution superfluous.

That was such a lovely thought. I believed it, and so did the majority of others.