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There is no justice system at the average-people level. Just a system that you insert people into and they get chewed up to various degrees mostly depending on how much they say the right words and/or keep their mouth shut at the right points. The only way not to lose is to not get involved. But this part of the system is not the part Red Tribe sees as politically compromised, and pointing to it as a response to Red Tribe complaints looks a lot like misdirection.
Please, assume I know nothing about what the red tribe thinks. I do not live in the USA, and I do not really know what the red tribe complaints are, I suppose. I thought it was something like tough vs lenient on crime. I wandered into this post because I used to participate on the old motte subreddit (I still post in the wellness thread here), and the inaugaration events got me thinking.
I assume most people who are affected by the justice system are everyday people. They are the people who shoplift, or have something stolen, or have to deal with drug addicts, or speak to police officers, or feel that their neighbourhood is generally safe (or not).
I guess you are referring exclusively to political crimes or crimes that are comitted for the purpose of affecting politics, which is a fair thing to focus on. But again, there are arguments from both sides, and I don't really know how to gauge or weigh things outside of everyone being extremely dissatisfied, which isn't a good sign. It's tough for me to take evidence or arguments without a lot of skepticism because they are so one sided and seem to just go back and forth, further and further into ancestral feuds. Or that's what it feels like. The actual time frame is just a few years.
That's not really your problem nor should you be obliged to dig up information. I find a lot of political discussions disheartening because there is very little discussion of what works, and a lot of discussion about how bad the other guys are, which is not what I care about (and personally I think is extremely counter productive to finding a viable solution, which is maybe what you sense in my initial comment). I think the discussion culture here has changed quite a lot, in general and here.
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