Before I listen to William Barr, I want to wait for the results of the Maricopa County audit. That will be more telling than Barr’s opinion. I think it would be wise for him to shut up and wait for those results. Otherwise he could be making an ass of himself.
“I think it would be wise for him to shut up and wait for those results. Otherwise he could be making an ass of himself.”
One thing I’ve learned over the last 5 years — The timing of these types of pronouncements is not coincidental. The left is beginning its campaign against the Arizona results. Or — the fix is in and the Arizona results will show a few issues that need to be “tightened up” but no widespread voter fraud. Barr can then say, “I told you so.”
The entire justice system is corrupt in this country. There is special treatment for the wealthy and powerful, the system is unaffordable to the middle class, and the poor receive free legal representation. Lawyers and the courts collude to bankrupt targets in civil and criminal trials. Prosecutor and judges will ignore constitutional guarantees of due process, as we see with the January 6 defendants, to hold people until they confess just to get on with their lives.
When a system is as corrupt as our system is, attorneys like Bill Barr are fully invested in it. Their careers were made in the system and many of the participants in the system (lawyers, judges, and politicians) are as deeply dependent on the system as Barr. These people protect the system, not the people. Barr isn’t going to participate in reforming the system, or even questioning it. To do so he would have to destroy his life’s work, his lifestyle, and walk away from his friends. It isn’t going to happen.
When a government and society has been completely corrupted it cannot be reformed from the inside. It is either destroyed from the outside (losing a war) or it collapses (economic collapse or revolution) and is rebuilt in a new form. Then the cycle begins again.
Look at our own country. Even though the nation fought a Civil War to end slavery, the sharecropper system and Jim Crow laws that replaced it in the south essentially perpetuated economic and social slavery in the south for another 100 years. Ending legal discrimination in was imposed by the federal government through judicial action (Brown vs. Education), legislation (Civil rights and Voting Rights acts), use of force (FBI, federal marshals and troops), and the heavy hand of government regulation of the activities of the southern states by the DOJ and EEOC. The South was unwilling to end slavery voluntarily from the Revolution to the Civil War. After the war, as soon as the Union Troops left, white southerners implemented another corrupt system of control over the former slaves and would not give it up, even 100 years later, without being forced to do so by external forces.
The mullahs of Iran today are not going to give up power without being forced to do so from the outside. Venezuela and Cuba will remain under dictatorship without outside intervention. African governments have been corrupt for more than half a century and will continue to be. Even Rome, arguably the greatest empire in the world, became corrupt and was destroyed from the outside by invading barbarians.
No matter what happens in Maricopa County, the corrupt establishment is not going to reform itself. Republican politicians such as Bill Barr are not going to protect freedom. The denial of due process to the January 6 detainees doesn’t bother him in the least, nor does it concern most of the GOP members of Congress. Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell will not change their behavior if the GOP captures the House and the Senate in 2022. If Donald Trump is reelected President in 2024 (very unlikely due to fraud), he will have no more success against the “deep state” than he did during his first term. Too many people and institutions are fully vested in the status quo. Cancer rarely cures itself.