"Billionaire Boys Club": What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity

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3. No One Is Above The Law?

This has got to be the greatest fallacy in American Democracy. There is a culture of very wealthy elites who have always felt that the rules never apply to them. So even when laws are broken, we even have some of those elites installed in the highest court in the land to put their corrupt fingers on the scales of justice in favor of their fellow members of that ruling class. What remains, is a system of law which keeps the underclass law-abiding citizens coerced into following laws not so equally applied. And exercising one's legal rights often is cost prohibitive involving minimal legal representation to confront an army of lawyers paid with huge retainers by the ultra-rich.
This is becoming more obvious with Trump as the poster boy for impunity. And breaking the law is now seen as just the cost of doing business for those who can afford to stall things out in the courts until the day they die without paying for their crimes. This entitled attitude tells them that obeying laws are for suckers.