These United States

Americans, by and large, value fairness. Our deeply ingrained belief in equality and justice is core to our shared social contract. And how these core concepts are defined have expanded over the course of our nearly two-hundred and fifty years of being a country. We are a distinctly unique society in the world.

The richness of our uniqueness is seen by the multitudes of people from every corner of the earth who have chosen to join us in this complex experiment. It isn’t just our merit system or the belief that regardless of where you start you can make your life what you want it to be while still retaining your individuality, but a hope that you will be treated equally and fairly, at all times. That is a principal cornerstone of these United States. One that we are continually tasked to perfect.

“That’s not fair” is something Americans say or think about with regularity. We really don’t like “unfairness”. American children are particularly adept at calling balls and strikes on what is or is not fair. You’ll hear them say “that’s not fair” very quickly whether it’s about chores, or slices of pizza or toys. And when they experience something that is not “fair” and call it out and get ignored, they build resentment.

As a young mom I learned a trick when it came to doling out slices of cake or other desserts. With two kids, it was “the one cuts, the other chooses.” I was amused how quickly they became mechanical engineers at cake slice cutting. Both slices had to be perfectly equal or the cutter risked getting the smaller slice because the other one got to choose first.

Watching our national politics playing out on media it’s clear the Democrats don’t understand the depth of our country’s dedication to the concept of “fairness.” That lack of understanding will prove perilous to them.

Most everyone in this country knows somebody, whether it’s a friend, a relative or a co-worker that has taken a charge for some drug offense, usually cocaine or something close. With a lot of those charged spending some amount of time in jail. I know a perfectly fine young man that spent about two years in state prison for transporting weapons for an acquaintance. He was young, it was stupid. His mother refused to visit him, she was so angry. Luckily his step-father did visit with him and helped him after he was released.

Those friends, relatives and co-workers are watching one of the most famous sons in this country seeming to not be punished the way others have been punished. They’re watching him get charged with misdemeanors and pay fines but not having any prison time for tax evasion and felony gun possession.

Time magazine reported “In exchange for pleading guilty to the two tax charges, going to an addiction counseling program, staying clean for two years, and not owning guns, the Justice Department agreed to not prosecute Hunter Biden on the gun charge.”

My friend’s son did two years in state prison for felony gun possession, but our Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Hunter Biden. I’d say that isn’t fair. Most people would say that isn’t fair. But that’s what happened.

Hilary Clinton didn’t have a security clearance, none of the First Ladies do, but she kept high level secure documents on a server in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York. Some have argued that the documents weren’t classified, but it was later determined that there were many that should have been.

“Federal agencies did, however, retrospectively determine that 100 emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret". An additional 2,093 emails were retroactively designated confidential by the State Department”.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy)

A friend of mine who worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at the time told me that everyone was gathered around the bank of televisions to watch James Comey’s press conference of the review of the documents. And when he announced he would not seek prosecution, these employees began yelling at the television screens. Because they knew if it were them who had done what she did, they would be going to prison.

They didn’t think it was fair.

Americans are now watching Donald Trump being handed indictments in four separate jurisdictions: New York, Miami, the District of Columbia and Atlanta. Talk about overkill.

Each of the cases carry charges that overlap with acts committed by Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Stacy Abrams and Joe and Hunter Biden. But none of these are being indicted, or at the least, called to task.

Americans aren’t idiots and as said earlier “fairness” is a core American value. Today the country woke up significantly more divided due to the overreach and hypocrisy of a Democratic Party that is hell-bent to destroy what many people see as the greatest President of the last twenty years. We’ll see how it goes, but I do know from speaking with friends and relatives, they won’t be ignoring this election and they’re hell bent to make this election about what is fair.