{"id":5857,"date":"2023-01-15T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:25:42","slug":"a-bad-take-in-a-country-full-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5857","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Take in a Country Full of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3IR2WMG\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3IR2WMG\">This<\/a> is just another bad take in a country full of them. A bad take underpinned, no doubt, by the na\u00efve faith that the USA is special and the rules of democratic decline therefore do not apply to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bad take that, combined with a nation full of similarly bad takes, has the overall effect that if you are sufficiently powerful, you can do <em>any<\/em>thing and get away with it. A nation full of bad takes which is now already a nation of men and not a nation of laws. A nation that acts like a cocky teenager who believes that <em>his<\/em> drinking will never lead to <em>his<\/em> driving causing any problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it all complicates things, no doubt about that. But the cases are not completely identical (one accused criminal&#8217;s actions appear to be mostly accidental, governed by how the accused cooperated with the authorities <em>to the point of informing them of the unlawful behavior<\/em>). The complications are not being disputed by me here. What I am taking issue with is the outright <em>celebration<\/em> of how there is now a path to holding <em>neither<\/em> Trump nor Biden accountable for something that would land J. Random Federal Employee behind bars in detention pending a criminal trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Both<\/em> should be held accountable, and this accountability process includes taking into account one accused&#8217;s cooperation and the other accused&#8217;s lack of remorse into fact. If this ends in Biden being compelled to resign with a misdemeanor charge to his name, so be it. No special rights for the powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is only one place where a nation ruled by the principle that the powerful can do whatever the hell they want can go, and it is not a good place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe things will change, and a turn off the road to hell will be taken before the inevitable arrival at that road&#8217;s destination comes, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just another bad take in a country full of them. A bad take underpinned, no doubt, by the na\u00efve faith that the USA is special and the rules of democratic decline therefore do not apply to it. A bad take that, combined with a nation full of similarly bad takes, has the overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}