{"id":86286,"date":"2023-10-19T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86286"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:24:34","slug":"the-fix-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86286","title":{"rendered":"The Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” – a society where people don’t trust their institutions, or each other, to do the right thing; reverting to the “Law of the Jungle” becomes expedient, initially – and, eventually prudent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when it’s the criminal justice system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never took a rocket scientist to believe the Chauvin trial was swayed by, not so much “public opinion” but by “potential mob rage”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s actually written down in black and white:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1714729290636415389\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m not saying the DFL in this state is trying to create a low trust society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m just at a loss for what they’d be doing different if they were<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves. When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,51,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-liberal-tyranny","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86287,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86286\/revisions\/86287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}