Hilary knows how to work government. So vote Trump.

I believe we have overlooked the importance of this election on whether we continue our march to tyranny or take a small step back towards liberty.

The two parties have different platforms, and there could be important discussion about those issues. But that’s not what occupies the news, or the social media posts. Those are all about the horse race, and about character flaws, and personal histories. And the inescapable conclusion is that neither Hilary nor Trump can be trusted with the awesome power of the presidency.

Hilary’s only personal asset has been government power and influence, and she’s made a fortune of millions of dollars selling that. She has a long list of scandals, and the recent Wikileaks documents seem to confirm some of the worst accusations. Her supporters seem unable to admit even the slightest flaw in her – they couldn’t even concede she was ill until video evidence made it impossible to deny. However good she may be, I am certain she is not perfect, and those who insist on her perfection lose all credibility.

Trump doesn’t have Hilary’s history of abusing government power, but his business history doesn’t look much more wholesome. He’s made some remarks that, while nothing compared to the rap artists the left celebrates, are still inconsistent with the character we hope for in a president. He was a bully in the Republican primaries, and too often used name calling and boasting to force himself to the fore. I am convinced that he is not the man to “Make America Great.”

Trump is not the man to Make America Great because we are the only ones who can make America great – you, me, our neighbors, coworkers, bosses, employees and customers. However smart Trump and Hilary may be, I am certain that they do not know how to live your life or do your job better than you do. We will be great because we work together, not because someone in Washington forces us to do what they say.

But either Trump or Hilary is likely to become president, and wield the awesome power of the presidency to affect our lives in many ways. And therein lies our problem – not that one of them will have such awesome power, but that we allow anyone to have such awesome power.

It was not always this way. The U.S. government was established with three separate branches, so that each branch might serve as a check on the power of the others. No single person, or single branch, could run roughshod over our liberties. The president couldn’t collect taxes, or imposes rules on our lives, or go to war, unless the Congress agreed.

But that is not where we are. We have fallen victim to an age-old temptation to look for some other person to “fight for us” (a distressingly common political slogan). Congress has too many different people in it to pick just one, so we look to the president. The president is the head of the executive branch, which through Congress’s default and weakness now has administrative agencies that pass their own rules, raise their own revenue, hold their own courts, impose their own sentences, and “investigate” their own failings. The president has awesome power because Congress has abdicated its own.

What does that have to do with the current presidential election? Everything. The new president, Trump or Hilary, will have far more power to restrict our liberty than our system is supposed to allow. Obama’s “stroke of the pen, law of the land” is the rule of a dictator, not the president of a republic. There not much you or I can do to resist. But there is a lot that Congress can do to resist. And which candidate will be more likely to be resisted?

Certainly not Hilary. For all her failures, she has been remarkably successful in getting government to bend to her will. A press that was afraid to even report her illness is not going to oppose her. The Democratic party is expert at closing ranks to support their powerful ones; there will be no resistance from them. Even many Republicans in Congress pride themselves on being able to “work across the aisle to get things done” – things like 18 trillion dollar debts, and continually expanding government and continually shrinking liberty.

What about Trump? He’s already opposed by most of the press, and there is no doubt that the Democrats in Congress will oppose his every move. A good number of Republican Congressmen already oppose him.

I don’t think our choice this year is which candidate is a better person – they each have more than their share of flaws. Our choice is which candidate can be resisted when their corruption and personal deficiencies surface. I know it’s not Hilary – the established powers in the U.S. will continue to side with her to maintain their own power. I’m not sure that Trump will resist the lure of presidential power either, but I am confident that we will have allies resisting his worst moments. So Trump it must be, not because he’s a great man but because at least the folks in Washington will be battling each other instead of battling us.