>>510901188It's not about that. It's, "Rules for Me, Rules for Thee." This whole thing cuts to the very marrow and beyond of why we're angry at the state of America. We have become the Thing That Should Not Be. We didn't leave behind the Old World to create an even worse version of the 18th century aristocracy here.
It's a scandal that totally delegitimizes the very existence of our current arrangement. Not only are our rights being violated but they are being violated by people who are the absolute lowest, amoral scum on the planet in the eyes of every single civilization worth celebrating.
The Founders left after fifty years of tax and land disputes on ideological premises over anxieties about the degradation of the ruling class. If this sort of thing was found to be going on in Parliament, we would've literally formed an army to sail across the sea and burn down Buckingham.