"On the contrary, the Justice Dept is investigating ties between President Trump and the Russian gov't."

Not according to Comey's testimony earlier this week. When specifically asked, he denied that President Trump himself was being investigated or at all under scrutiny. The investigations were whether any of Trump's transition team had improper dealings. So far nothing has been found. Even Michael Flynn's dealings were not about improper contacts, but that he had contacts he didn't disclose to Mike Pence. He was fired, but it was a pretty minor offense - nowhere even close to anything like Loretta Lynch's improper meeting with Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner having secure emails on his laptop, or a host of other Obama-era scandals.

Trump is not under investigation for any crime and there is no evidence that he committed any crime. Russia has been interfering in other countries for a century. That and Hillary's denial hysteria don't make Trump a suspect. In this country people are innocent until proven guilty and are not supposed to be maligned, suspected and investigated just because a political party demands it. (And why is Obama's known interference trying to defeat Netanyahu in the Israeli election not mentioned?)

There is no objectivity in this "investigation" mania at all. The whole circus of innuendos and insinuations makes no sense and isn't intended to, which is why Sessions rightly called it "Through the Looking Glass". And yet they have managed to create national confusion and growing chaos.

As Toohey acknowledged in The Fountainhead, "Don't bother to examine a folly -- ask yourself only what it accomplishes."

The Democrats, including the establishment media on a hysterical crusade to support them, have manufactured controversies to intentionally cast doubt and undermine their political enemies. It began when they accused Trump of not legitimately winning the election, blaming it on "The Russians", now entwined with accusations of an undefined "collusion" for which there is no evidence.

Innocent people are not supposed to be put through investigations, persecution, and exposes on whatever can be found on them and spread to appear embarrassing, all on the grounds that 'if they're innocent they have nothing to worry about' so 'it's for their own good to be shown innocent by an investigation'. This isn't supposed to be a police state. The FBI is not supposed to be the witch-hunt arm of political "opposition research" and more.

Yet these antics are fully compatible with the Obama administration abuse of intelligence and other government agencies to single out, investigate and try to find anything with which to discredit, persecute or bring down its political enemies -- which Comey subsequently continued on his own, including his now exposed personal tactic to politically manufacture the appearance of a need for a "special prosecutor" for which there was no crime to investigate. All of this exploitation of and political actions from inside of intelligence agencies are police state tactics, made possible in part by growing disregard for the rights of the individual and in particular for freedom from massive government surveillance practiced in the name of protection.

They want to disrupt people's lives and harass them into ceasing to function. They want to exploit vague standards of open-ended, overlapping laws designed to make anyone guilty of something, or appear to be, whenever needed. It's the chickens coming home to roost.

They are demanding "investigations" for the purpose of disrupting, harassing, and spreading suspicion. Their "investigations" are intended to create suspicion, not investigate objectively held suspicion. Trump's guilt in their minds is that he isn't a Democrat and he beat Hillary. He wants to drain their swamp. They want to create an appearance and equivalence of impeachment hearings.

Their idea of "independent" means someone outside -- preferably themselves -- of an elected government that is supposed to be directing government functions, including investigations of foreign countries. They want to take that over and turn it into an attack on Trump (where were the Democrats when Obama was in charge of protection of US security?). They want an official sanction of their propaganda in the name of "Independent Investigation" to make it appear credible, beyond what they can get from their own typical antics and the usual anti-journalism.

They want a moral sanction, which is why it was a terrible error for Sessions to recuse himself, helping them to create an appearance that he, not his accusers, have a conflict of interest. He is not the only one to have pandered to the irrationality in the hope of appearing reasonable, nor could anything he does ever satisfy them. In the name of "independent" they want to take over the power of government investigative functions they lost in the election, and Sessions and others of their targets have helped give it to them.

The "investigations" are intended to drive out their political enemies through disruption and creation of unfounded public suspicions to, by illegitimate means, undermine the government and prevent it from functioning, especially to limit reforming statism, until they can take over full power; in a word, it's a means of pursuing a coup.

Their violent street and university "protests" are only the beginning if they don't get what they want and aren't stopped. They need a weak, appeasing government lacking public confidence and which is not able to stop escalating violence.

The kind of extended, deliberately created chaos disabling a government -- with the support of the intellectuals in an ends-justifies-the-means mania -- that we are seeing is unprecedented in this country and ought to be frightening to everyone. Their drive for power has them so hopped up that they feel anything is justified to overthrow their political enemies, Trump in particular.

The current circus of irrationalism and growing confusion over "investigations" that make no objective sense is not an accident. Reforming government, and preventing further ideologically driven power grabs, requires and begins by articulating and explaining rational ideas. The creation of confusion and chaos is intentional -- statism cannot co-exist with a rational society in which people understand what is happening. That Republicans, and Trump in particular, are unable to rationally defend themselves -- in part because of their own indefensible 'me too but slower' statism-collectivism -- is aiding the decline. One cannot fight a tide of irrationalism, chaos and power-seeking with evasion, pandering, and a mentality of middle-of-the-night spurts of 140-character emotional taunts in "tweets" further diluting serious public discussion. The Democrats know that and are taking full advantage of it.

I like those metaphors, Nick...

It's not that there aren't good ideas that wouldn't help if enough people were willing and able to use them, if they could be put into place at all, but it's not the solution. The course of the country depends on the ideas that people accept -- there is enormous 'data' showing that for a few thousand years. There are no short cuts. With growing widely accepted statist-altruist-collectivist premises nothing you could put into the Constitution can stop them without reversing the intellectual course of the country. That is why it isn't true that improving the Constitution will save us or is all that can save us. It's not that people who want the improvements aren't sincere or legitimately frustrated, but it's not nearly enough.

Indeed, true.