People like Fallon start from the premise, "Can I imagine some explanation in which this thing, standing alone, can be fitted into a principled legal system?"
I mean, yeah, sure, that can be done for anything. But doing so makes you a collaborator and a propagandist, not an honest & wise scholar.
We don't have to imagine what can happen when a person with power decides he is going to do whatever he wants and to bad (or out the window) for those who object.
And no, an unjust "court system" isn't the answer. That's another fiction invented by money to protect money.
Thank you.
No sense in searching for answers that upset us less than the reality we all face. Ditch the silver linings playbook. Sobriety is an absolute must right now.
It doesn't even seem like they're describing a principled legal system, so much as an incoherent legal system that still magically upholds principles because every agent of the court is inherently trustworthy and moral.