I wanted to avoid the news this week, but surprisingly my wife kept turning it on. It was weird to see the kind of conversations I’ve been having in anonymous chat rooms for 3 years, appear on TV. They were explaining that first you vote, then you count. They were explaining what evidence is and how, if you want to demonstrate something that no one else does, you first need some evidence, then you present it, then someone decides it is valid and worthy of trial, then you get a trial, etc. Oddly enough, anyone with a viewing device has seen the evidence of police brutality during that same 3 years, and they’ve seen the cases not get real trials, they’ve seen evidence get thrown out, etc.
What has been getting poisoned since McConnell was in charge is the justice system. Luckily, we have a thin thread of democracy left and we are protecting the Constitution from further erosion.