I recently saw a television commercial for Hillary Clinton, but it never bothered to explain why she should be president. Instead, it explained why Donald Trump should not be, which I suppose is a wise strategy for her ("no matter how loathsome I am, he's worse"). I was prepared to switch the channel when a parade of establishment empty suits declared that Donald Trump cannot be trusted with America's nuclear arsenal. Now, this intrigued me. Apparently, the president cannot be someone as volatile and uninformed as Trump because the president has his finger on "the button" and can unleash Armageddon.
These eminent personages are completely ignorant of America's founding philosophy, which is this -- NOBODY can be trusted with too much power. The founders operated on the assumption that any power that can be abused will be abused, which is precisely why they split the functions of the federal government and kept the vast majority of power with the several states.
The fact that Hillary Clinton claims Trump is too dangerous for the presidency is an admission that the presidency is too dangerous for anyone, including Hillary herself. Americans are not supposed to resign themselves to hoping that government power will not be abused; rather, Americans have a right to feel comfortable knowing that government power cannot be abused, certainly not to the Biblical extent now possible. Those days are long gone, though, as most Americans have entrusted government with the unconstitutional power to do virtually everything under the sun.
No sane person would conclude that it's safe to trust one person versus another with the power to annihilate humanity. At the end of the day, Hillary's commercial proves that just about everyone is unhinged, not merely Trump.
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