AFAIK, “equal justice for all” has never been true for all Americans. Always, the deck of justice has been stacked more in favor of the wealthy.
The morals of pay day lenders are not going to improve anytime soon, if they become unregulated again, they will resume their extreme predatory exploitation of poor or economically desperate ppl.
Other economic sociopaths are not going to suddenly grow a conscience, so consumer protective regulations that have been cut away, will allow for those sociopaths to resume taking advantage of the vulnerable.
Industries that profit from ignoring any responsibility for protecting the environment or consumer safety will again begin profiting with the protective regulations dismantled. The environment and consumers with suffer but the industries will increase profits.
The stock market will go up. The economy will be goosed. But the bad effects will eventually be noticed. What has gone up will come down.
BTW, has our current POTUS completed a single trade deal, almost 3 yrs into his Presidency? The vaunted “deal maker” can’t seem to actually negotiate his way out of a paper bag. He can blow the paper bag up real good, with hot air and threats of tariffs, but so far, that seems to be about it.
What deal can Trump make that the House will agree upon? You are right on the equal justice for all. The idea is the general public should perceive that it is. What you are proposing is that we live under laws that say everyone is equal even though we are not and never will be. Isn’t that like living a lie. At least if we move from regulations to people we then have no one to blame but ourselves because if we get fooled by electing the wrong people then it is our fault. And that can be change in the next election. Trump and Hillary for example. We almost had the wrong person elected. What regulations has done is make people stop voting because they don’t think it can make any difference. The swamp is everywhere.
The vaunted deal maker, the guy who lied when saying he wrote “The Art of the Deal” but who is the titular author, cannot deal with the House? You buy into his scam that he will be able to deal with Kim Jung Un, but the House is too difficult of a party to deal with? He has never tried to deal with the House - just the contrary. He has opened up trade talks all over the place- initiated tariff wars with lots of countries at once, with nothing bottom line to show, so far. And the cracks are going to show at some point. ATM, Japan is taking advantage of Trump’s spreading his idiocy too far, and is reportedly in the midst of making a deal that is highly favorable for JAPAN.
But yeah, dealing with the House, a bridge that the T-rump has burned over and over, would be difficult at this point.
Our notion of our democratic republic is not that everyone is equal but that everyone is to have the same justice. You say it is not realistic, which is true to the extent that ultimate perfection is impossible, but, as our Constitution declares our mission is to form a “more perfect” union, we are to endeavor to improve. Simply claiming that perfect equality of justice is impossible, is a MAJOR cop out, if it is an excuse or a call to cease efforts to make our justice system more fair for all.
And really, in the grand scheme of things, all humans are not so different from each other. From the most desperately poor and developmentally delayed to the most grandly fortunate with the most advanced IQ and social skills and owner of material riches - we are not so different from each other. Our DNA is fractionally different at the most. We each have similar emotions. We each live and we each die. So the “natural inequality” of humans is, IMO, a tragically weak stance to try to lay as a framework for not endeavoring to strive toward closer equality of justice