All craftsmen, scientists, even writers will tell you that the tools used in their endeavors are of the utmost importance. Mechanics are of one voice when preferring a socket of the right size over an end wrench, or an offset boxend to an open end, an open end to slip joint pliers, and so forth. An orthopedic surgeon sporting a surgical kit circa 1865 will be citicized, and rightly so, by his peers using orthroscopes, lasers, and CCTV.

In some instances, the tools of decades ago are still the preferred and technically superior choice over newer, less proven devices. A 1940 era cutting torch is essential to metal workers and has not seen much improvement as none has been needed. A twenty pound sledge hammer is still the state of the art in creating reltively small holes in stucco.

It is understood that newer, more efficient tools have been created out of necessity and convenience. But when a tool is efficient, and no tool has been created that will serve the purpose as well, the original is still the state of the art and the choice of the wise.

Throughout human history, men have sought a process of governing society that would provide just what was needed, prevent what was not desired, and defended against the common enemy. In most historical episodes, a supreme ruler stepped into the vacuum caused by revolt or succession and dealt out the government he saw beneficial to himself.

Only when geographically isolated by the two great oceans, and determined to not be exploited without benefit to themselves, and with a willingness to die rather than be subjugated, did man put his mind to developing a better tool for societal needs and empower the individual to determine his own fate as he saw it given by the Universal Creator.

The result of this concentration of self determined, idealistic pooling of reason and logic was a union of self governing states, for the common purpose of defense, foreign associations, and various other common needs regulated and limited in its power by a constitutional document of agreement between those states that was so near perfection it has been and remains today, the state of the art in government. No other form of societal regulation has even come close to the immense success of every kind that the Constitution of the United States of America has proven to be.

There have been all sorts of government instituted in many ways, mostly with the proverbial divine supremist at the top, doling out that amount of individuality as seen to be appropriate. There have even been experiments in rule by majority that have failed in their lack of predictability of future influences and demands. But never, in all of recorded time has there been anything approaching the Constitution for its ability to create happiness, wealth, influence, respect, and peace for its citizens.

So why, when, after 230 plus years of unrivaled success, nothing else having been proven more efficient, do some of the citizens benefitting from that successful nation insist that they must change the tool that has served so well and experiment with forms of government that have failed, not once but everytime they were used. And not only have they proven inefficient to the point of failure, most times they have been outright destructive to incentive, personal freedom, economy, and the general well being of those governed, fomenting discontent, dissent, and rebellion of the most violent kind. Murder, usurpation, enslavement, war, and revolt have been the common product of such experimentation, the best being anarchy and, again, a supreme, divine benevolent dictator stepping in to deliver His subjects from their self inflicted misery and ignorance.

If there had been developed a simple, single step process of turning lead into gold, and no simpler method devised in a millineum, would we abandon that goose, lop off its head for roasting, and search for a better way? If immortality had been found at a fountain of cold spring thaw, would we water our fields with it while looking for a simpler way than to drink thereof? I say no, and no again. I say hell no, not on my watch!

That that law which hath raised a nation to global prominence, providing a dream for all other nations to strive for, making that nation the envy of all sentient humanity should be abandoned for the wild expectation of a more perfect perfection is blasphemy of the divinity which instilled that freedom yearning in all humanity. I say over my dead and rotting corpse if I hold any sway. And, with the promise of that constitution I, and those of same mind, do hold sway, by right of birth.

It is the flight of fancy, the false pursuit of divinity of self that causes such rabid desire in men as to inspire the wanton destruction of that which guaranteed their security and liberty to be able to dream peaceably at all. It is overwhelming greed and lack of confidence in fellow men that infests the soul of those wishing to de-evolve through the abandonement of man’s best product for the governmental process.

The truth is the Constitution is without peer, unrivaled in its efficiency, inherently successful, and in no need of improvement, arbitrary change, or major revamping. So, why not depend on it until a better device be invented. Only a fool would offer argument to that decision. Fools, we are become aware, are plentiful. Wise men, not so much.

Long live the Constitution! Long live America! God bless America.

Glenn Flowers