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>So if you're a corrupt politician, managing to become president should be a "get out of jail free card"? Yes. In fact, the US constitution explicitly allows t
by aphextron 6y ago
>So if you're a corrupt politician, managing to become president should be a "get out of jail free card"?
Yes. In fact, the US constitution explicitly allows this via pardoning. Sending presidents to jail has rarely ever worked out well in history. It becomes an inherently political power struggle, and weaponizes the justice system for political purposes.
Anything short of cold blooded murder can be twisted and skewed into something either worse or not as bad as it actually is, depending on your political leaning. And like it or not, we have to share this country with 50% of the population who disagree with us politically. The alternative is disenfranchisement and civil unrest.
- watwut 6y agoMaking president "do what you want law dont apply to you" is policising the justice system. And it advantages parties willing to break law.
- inglor_cz 6y agoThere is no clean separation of the political world and the judicial system. For example, impeachments are modelled after trials, but they are clearly of very political nature. At the end of the day, up there in Washington, Mutually Assured Destruction prevails. Whatever you unleash on your opponents when in power, will be unleashed upon you when the winds change. In that situation, both Rs and Ds are better off only prosecuting outright murderers. This isn't new, this was a problem already in Ancient Greece. Power and justice do not really mix well.
- watwut 6y agoImpeachement is literally political process, intended to be political. It is not actually trying to be justice at all. And, the fact that high enough politician gets away with everything is why the contemporary American politics have issues it has.