Build it and they will come. The virtual prison of Calvinism, believing life and creation are a shit interruption in the existence of your perfect, pure, immortal and immaterial soul, argues for a physical manifestation as a reflection of God's goodness. Hence a Republican incarceration fixation. Hence the love of prisons, brutal and arbitrary detainment since it embodies God's perversion, in sticking you in a body in the first place.
God's way, in other words, the path of cruelty. To keep sin in check, I suppose, and to curb fleshly desires. We're incarcerated in creation so why not. Why not jail for everybody. And why not drill down, define it and refine it so there's an ecosystem of incarceration. And nothing else, with wonderful hierarchies of pain and persecution. Anybody thinking about what might happen if, by some miracle, rational, decent people get control again?
Mike Johnson's nightmare. He's pissing his pants over it. Why? They all deserve jail. He knows it. So, back to the question, what do we do when, what, maybe a third of the country ought to be in jail, both for past transgressions and because they will never stop with the criminal intent? They walked away at the end of WWII, many committed Nazis and war criminals. They walked from the Civil War, too many traitors and racist assholes.
Where did that get us? Same shit all over again.
What would be justice for perps Miller, Vought and Trump? There would need to be thousands of each of them, punished and tortured forever. Still not enough. This applies to the Republicans in Congress. They created the mess, made themselves convicts. Sentencing is superfluous. They convicted themselves. I don't have an answer. Justice can't be had. Mercy hasn't worked. That's where we are, assuming we have an opportunity to do anything.
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