Work Reform

I mean... it's not really taking medical leave when you're dead. It's more an issue of open known fraud to keep an election from happening. You know, the sort of thing we all know the Trump team really wants to pull off.

Maybe this is the dry run? If people all know a Senator is dead and that they're being lied to and that it's being done to block an election and they don't riot in the streets over it then the next logical step would be doing that same thing when a President dies. Then maybe all the elections.

It's like the decades of hearing "innocent until proven guilty" has convinced the people of the country that if there's even a shred of doubt and we don't have 100% concrete proof the President raped and killed kids or a Senator is a rotting corpse we shouldn't do anything about it.

Even though "innocent until proven guilty" isn't how the US penal system works for most Americans. You don't get a CSI team pouring over every tiny detail to make sure you're guilty before you go to prison for decades. If you can't afford to pay for a lawyer and pay for specialists to analyze the evidence, no one does that. The cops can show up and find your wife dead and you laying in bed with a bloody knife beside you and arrest you. If you're too poor to afford any defense there could be a dozen confession notes in the house signed and dated by the killer admitting to framing you to see if it would work, and if no one on the prosecuting end happens to find, read, and care about one of them then you're definitely going to prison.

The worst part is the careers and funding for the police, prosecution, and most judges are based on arrest and conviction rate of the highest crimes possible. They want to charge people for murder, or child sex crimes, or drug trafficking. The big things that look impressive. So if someone does find that note but doesn't think they'd be able to arrest and convict this person and knows it would destroy the case against you they have motive to ignore it or 'decide' it's fake or not related without logging it as evidence.

Once someone without any money is arrested they're charged for the highest crimes the police can possibly relate to the situation, then they're locked in jail for months/years and threatened with decades of prison time and offered to plea to a lesser crime for a reduced sentence. After a year in hell being threatened with 15 more years in hell, an offer of 18 months with credit for the year already in sounds like a blessing even if you never committed the crime. That's what they rely on. That's why conviction rates are so high and we have more people in prison and a higher percentage of our population than anyone else in the world.

It's very likely that hundreds of thousands of people in prison in the US were innocent and just couldn't afford a defense. But since we've all heard "innocent until proven guilty" so many times when we hear that someone has a felony we all instantly think they're a criminal and a bad person.

"Innocent until proven guilty" is a lie. It's controlling the narrative. It makes the bulk of us feel the millions of US citizens in prison must have really deserved it even though we know about the for-profit prison system and the using prisoners to do slave labor. And it makes us hesitate to decide we know the wealthy and elite are 100% guilty. We didn't see a video of Trump raping and beating little girls, after all. We don't have a live stream of McConnell's rotting corpse. So we do nothing.