Yes, it's a rant and there will be plenty of them. Time to face facts. [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/justice-will-never-be-served-in-america.html

People like Trump always get advantages, always beat the rules, always. It's a fixed system. I call it two Americas. There's ordinary America, the one in which we live, the majority of the population that works for a living, doesn't have the luxury of living without being in debt, and either follows the rule of law, or faces the consequences immediately. We have no influence, no power to direct actions on our own behalf, and suffer the consequences if we step out of line. Our possessions are repossessed when we don't pay our bills, if the bank raises interest rates on our loans, we pay, and a whopping percentage of Americans suffer having their credit rating under the control of an unknown, faceless entity which exercises full control over their financial life. We are powerless to change it, even if a mistake is made. Too bad.

Ironically, most Trump supporters live in ordinary America, which is one of the reasons why they have idolized Trump, turning him into a character that doesn't exist, and don't seem to mind when he gets away with breaking the law and cheating the rules. They only wish they could do the same, and since he does, and gets away with it, they live vicariously through him. Hillary Clinton referred to most of them as "deplorables," and many of them really do fit that description. After watching them spew their blithering ignorance of politics, the world, history and just about everything else in interviews on social media, prior to entering one of his rallies, or voting for him in a primary or general election, I prefer the term "pathetic."

A lot of us also fall in the same category, however, because we demonstrate implicit trust in a system over which we have almost no control, but which we keep insisting we can change. We find political candidates who tell us they'll make a difference, We watch, in frustration, and get angry with our fellow ordinary Americans who have given up, and who are difficult, if not impossible, to convince that they need to do what we do, register, and go vote, because they have done it, and they have seen nothing change.
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Now we're left with the increasingly more difficult task of convincing ourselves that when we go cast our ballots in November, it will make a difference. Between now and then, will we see more egregious examples of a justice system that is powerless in the face of wealth and power, as we watch court cases against Trump fall by the wayside, or get delayed into the next century as those behind the scenes move heaven and earth to stop justice from happening to him or will someone, somewhere, actually have the courage and fortitude, and the love and respect for this country, its values and we, its people, to stand up, do the right thing, and send this antichrist fascist to prison where he belongs?