The Death of the Rule of Law in America

The rule of law. It’s a phrase we as Americans been fed since childhood, the idea that no one—not even the president—is above the law. But what does it mean when the rule of law has become a farce, an empty promise that’s shattered in plain sight? We live in a country where Trump, a convicted felon, is rewarded with the highest office in the land. Meanwhile, a woman was arrested for letting her 10-year-old walk to the store. This isn’t just a broken system—it’s a system that’s openly mocking us.

Take Ohio. Just yesterday, ordinary people were fearful for their lives after attending a play because a group of Nazis decided to march through town, waving swastika flags. That’s legal in America - that intimidation and violent rhetoric, not only legal, but socially acceptable.

Hate speech and symbols of genocide are protected under the banner of “free speech,” while the actual freedom to live, to go out in public without fear, is stripped away from average Americans who don't fit their narrow, hateful view of Amerikkka.

Let’s look at the Supreme Court. Once the bastion of impartiality, it’s now stacked with extremists. We have justices whose spouses were involved in an attempted coup, justices waving his own twisted version of an American flag—upside down, in distress, as if HE IS the victim! Privileged, powerful white men everywhere acting like victims.

This kangaroo court just ruled that it’s illegal to camp in public. The same court that claims to protect individual rights is criminalizing poverty while giving a green light to corporate greed and hate speech.

And Trump, emboldened by his legal ‘victories,’ wants to use the military against American citizens. His plan? Force the homeless and hopelessly addicted into camps on uninhabited land—because out of sight, out of mind. It’s a policy straight out of a dystopian novel, yet it’s being proposed by the man who is our next president. It’s not law and order; it’s state-sponsored violence against the most vulnerable.

And still, Kamala Harris and many others in the Democratic Party cling to the notion that the law can save us. They believe that if we just keep fighting, if we play by the rules, justice will prevail. But what happens when the rules are rigged, and the referees are on the take? What happens when the people making the laws are the very ones undermining them at every turn?

The America we once believed in is gone. The idea of a fair and just system is a relic, a comforting story we tell ourselves so we don’t have to face the reality: the rule of law in this country is dead, and its corpse is being paraded around by those who killed it, all while they tell us to trust the process.

We can’t keep pretending that the law is neutral when it punishes the powerless and rewards the powerful. It’s time to stop acting like we can litigate our way out of this mess. The question isn’t whether the law can save America. The question is: what are we willing to do when it can’t? Because the rule of law is gone, and what’s left is the rule of power.