Re: unbreakable wall
I don't consider the equivalent of "so's your old man" to be that significant as a rebuttal.
The central government has orders of magnitude more power than was ever intended by the founders. There is literally no aspect of our lives that is not currently under their control at some level. Think about it.
I consider this dangerous, and worthy of comment. Others seem to be okay with this situation, because without infinite power, how will you be able to command people to eat less starch?
If the government was much less powerful and dangerous, it wouldn't matter so much if a jerk got into office now and then. We sweat bullets at elections because we're not electing chief executives any more, we're electing gods.