re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Our modern conservatives love theater and performative politics, making a ghoulish spectacle out of justice fits in nicely in their concept.

It’s not even that. They don’t believe in justice, but punishment. They think that making an example of people who are even accused of crimes will prevent future criminals; like, “Wow, they executed an innocent man without blinking an eye, maybe I’d better think twice about criming.” Their philosophy is that it is better to kill 10 innocent men than 1 guilty man should go free, because it is unconscionable to them that anyone should get away with defying their absolute authority.