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Americans relying on *lawyers* to save democracy (lol) might be the most depressing thing I've ever heard. I guess we should ask ourselves which side has the best lawyers that money can buy, the government or a very very rich billionaire? Because juries are composed of very simple people, only one of whom the best lawyer money can buy needs to turn into a 1-vs-11 juror. Wealth inequality leads to inequality of education, and inequality of education leaves us with very simple jurors uncapable of saving democracy.

By allowing private citizens to become more powerful than the government through wealth-hoarding, we have at the least sold ourselves to an oligarchy through our embrace of Reaganism and wealth-worshipping, and at the worst we have let democracy fall to an oligarchy through our embrace of Reaganism and wealth-worshipping. Here we are folks, at the center of our decadence and wealth-chasing fuckin HOPING that the lawyers will save us lmfao.

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