That's what the liberals want to achieve - weaken your resolve to defend your own life.
They also aim to make you subservient to the state, no matter how off the wall and evil the state is, they will shove "rule of law" in your face when they thrpow you in jail, gulag, or execute you for the greater good.
The mission is to weaken your sense of independence and your fight.
In hindsight, I think Rittenhouse should’ve chosen a bench trial instead of jury.
It's worse than that.
The State wants to use shock troops, in effect a Red Fighting Front to do things the State cannot (yet) do.
All the people here who call Antifa "brownshirts" need to brush up on their history of Germany in the 1920s.
Dachau was built for Antifa, when the Germans were finally sick of them.
Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
“peers” only works if there is a reasonably common sense of values and what is right and what is wrong. In splintered America is hard to find 12 people you share common values with. I know the Supreme Court has ruled on what equals “peers”, but we’re rapidly reaching the point where the splinter will not be repairable.