I had to explain to my high school senior daughter today that the "rule of law" in the US was and always has been a figment or our collective imagination. It was a very sad day for me as a father. My daughter asked how Crystal Mason for casting an unintended illegal vote that had no chance of impacting an election gets 5 years in prison, but a US president who made multiple efforts to eliminate millions of legally cast votes terminating in the incitement of a murderous mob at the very heart of our democracy is allowed to walk away free of any accountability? The only answer....US Justice is not blind, never has been and never will be. I am grateful to all those who voted for Biden, for Georgians who voted for a democratic senate and sleep easier knowing adults are now on the bridge, but I hold no illusions as to the history of this country and its future. The rich and powerful have always and will always play by a different set of rules and when those rules work against them they will simply make up a new set and let the "few bad apples" take the fall. I have always and will always love my country and what America aspires to be, but I also know now that what we aspire for is and always will be a dream that can never be achieved. The "rule of law" is not some time honored principle chiseled in stone whose precepts are agreed upon by all. No, the rule of law is a piece of penciled paper to be defaced, scribbled over, sometimes erased and re-written by disingenuous, self serving lawyers who like the Pigs of Animal Farm aptly remind us at the most serious of moments, All US citizens are equal but some are more equal than others (see Wall Street investment bankers vs home owners in 2007-2008, see those who ordered torture and those who carried it out, see those who spread the Big Lie and those who died protecting them and those who died fighting for them... but we should say thanks for the standing ovation and the congressional gold medal...scraps from the Pigs table). Seems difficult not to conclude that American exceptionalism is exceptionally overrated.
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