It's our own damned fault, really. We didn't do the heavy lifting necessary to make the system work for us, certainly not since WWII. We didn't replace the Constitution, even though it needed replacing from the start. We acted like Mormons, pretending the thing was divinely inspired, rather than admitting it was just an ugly compromise between slave owners masquerading as farmers and land speculators masquerading as merchants to keep all real power in the hands of white, propertied, Christian men while pretending to share it. And we never corrected this, the result being the 1% made sure we couldn't have nice things. The barest in civil rights. The minimum in employment, workplace, and personal autonomy laws. Hells, even Obamacare barely passed muster under this Constitution according to the Extreme Court. And they cemented it all with Citizens United, which opened the money gates.
And now even our vaunted rule of law is being exposed for what colonized peoples have always known it to be: a device to protect and preserve the position and power of the 1%.
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