Quote (Thor123422 @ 27 Jan 2024 23:14)
You are applying your own experience, where you follow politics and have strong opinions. The average person doesn't pay any attention to politics. Even the average voter doesn't pay that close attention or have particularly strong feelings. Even in deep blue places it's pretty easy to find ambivalent people and even strong Trump supporters.
A rich white guy with millions of dollars to pay his lawyers with is not getting the short end of the stick in our legal system. In fact, the legal system has at every step bent over backwards to ensure Trump got treated far better than the average person, this case was no exception.
Our system is adversarial. Trump's lawyers get the opportunity to exempt jurors, but otherwise have to prove bias. If they can't, that's on them. The system works extremely well for rich people, and there's no argument that jury selection went wrong when you are throwing millions of dollars at your lawyers and have sophisticated council at your disposal.
This argument would have been passable in a really sleepy cycle like 2014, but come on. Ever since Trump burst onto the political scene, we've had one high-turnout election cycle after another. I would even argue that politics kinda became part of pop culture during the Trump presidency. It's absurb to argue that the average person doesn't pay any attention to politics in this day and age. You might be right that the average person, even the average voter, doesn't pay super close attention - but still easily enough to have formed an opinion on the freaking
president... let alone the most polarizing president in living memory.
The second part of your post is textbook ecological fallacy. "Rich white men are favored in the US legal system, Trump is a rich white men, therefore, he cannot have been treated unfairly."
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 27 2024 05:58pm