anyone who has sat on a jury knows that "truth" is a slippery subject..."the facts" may be lurking in the courtroom but that's not what you are there for...they are obscured by the manifold versions of "the truth" that everyone, from witnesses, to plaintiff, to defendant are trying to sell you on ( when i was a juror a husband and wife pair of witnesses who were in the same car could not agree on whether the scene was lit by the cars headlights or a porch light which probably wasn't on since it had been established there was a power outage due to a storm )...it is true we are all mired in an ego viewpoint...stuck behind our eyes and no matter who hard we try, in the end, everything is relative to us...so there's a kernel of truth to the relativism academics have seized on as a basis for explaining almost everything and even questioning the validity of "self" ( which is patent bullshit by the by...someone needs to tell these poor sods they are actually deconstructing themselves and so their crack brained hypotheses about who and what we are...get a grip...where's g.e. moore when you need him? in intellectual disrepute because he would have agreed it's all fatuous and lame academic self-aggrandizement )...so it shouldn't be a surprise that the current resident of the white house seizes on relativism to explain away disquieting "facts" with "alternate" ones...so his inauguration wasn't mobbed by millions..a media conspiracy to discredit him..and those photos? digitally manipulated...and in an age where that sort of trip down the memory hole is rampant..or ,at least, reasonably possible...even the n y times can photo-shop...what can you know? well...i know instability when i see it...and condescension...and arrogance...and disregard for the rights and prerogatives of the bulk of the population...an elitist take on the character of the wealthy and the implied lack there of of the less well to do ( and the non-existence of the indigent )...if it is a government "of the people" i have a fair take on which people...and that "for the people" business? those "people" comprise a distinct minority of the polity...and their bought whores are in charge of the legislature and if the judiciary...products of the same elitist universities as the rest of the ruling cadre...are "independent", they are independent of a sense of justice...something very different than the current state of "the law", or the government as a whole.
