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In reply to the discussion: Speaker Johnson says congress will try to interfere with Trump's legal cases.... [View all]Caliman73
(11,766 posts)What system is that? I mean, I know what system people like Johnson mean, though they would NEVER say it outright. Holding powerful people accountable within the same legal system that incarcerates average people is REPULSIVE to the powerful. While the Terror and Robespierre went off the rails, the initial outrage was that "ordinary citizens" were holding monarchs and nobles accountable in ANY way. That was the outrage. Ordinary people became concerned when the killing and repression did not abate and spilled over into everyday life.
People like Johnson and Conservatives see themselves as BETTER than everyone else and deserving of power and privilege. They see the world as fundamentally unequal and think that we should be bound by laws, while they are protected by laws. All of the Conservative talking heads have been saying that the trial is a "threat to democracy" and to our system of government, but they are LYING when they say that. They couldn't care less about democracy. They are concerned that the former president being held accountable would break the ceiling and that any one of them could face actual scrutiny and justice.
Conservatives coming out like this shows that they have no respect for the actual system of government that was put into place after the Revolution. While yes, it is not a direct democracy and yes, there were still elitist sentiments in factions of the Founders, the purpose of the systems set up was to make the government in many ways ACCOUNTABLE to the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. We are the governed. We are using DUE PROCESS and the RULE OF LAW to hold a person accountable for alleged crimes. It shouldn't matter who the defendant is or was. If the phrase, "Justice is Blind" is actually to be believed, then what should matter is the allegations and the evidence. If Trump is acquitted, it would suck, but if the government cannot bring sufficient evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt, then Trump deserves to be acquitted.
There absolutely is a two tiered justice system, but contrary to all the stupid squawking by Conservatives, Trump isn't receiving "special scrutiny" he is benefitting from the special treatment that is afforded to all wealthy and powerful people. Unfortunately, in our justice system, the divide is not political it is economic. Wealthy people can afford better attorneys, they can delay, they can use loopholes, and they get special consideration. The rest of us are much more likely to suffer adverse consequences from attention from the criminal justice system than any wealthy person. This "system" that I just described in my last sentences, is the "our system" that Johnson and other idiots are talking about.
These idiots need to be challenged, but our media is also very weak at holding people to account. They should be questioned as to why they think it is okay to lock Black, Brown, and poor people up for 20 years for minor possession of cannabis, but that it is a "threat to our system" to use that same justice system to try someone for business document fraud in connection with elections fraud. Some Black teenager getting caught with a few ounces of weed has zero effect on my daily life or the lives of anyone else, except maybe his family. A wealthy asshole lying about his affairs, committing document fraud after paying off a woman to hide an affair so that he could become president of the United States, and said asshole being so incompetent that he helped to cause the deaths of over 1 MILLION Americans in the span of 2 years, has much more effect on everyone's daily life. That Black teenager sits in a cell in Rikers for 3 to 5 years while the rich asshole gets to run for president ... again.