Hillary has climbed aboard the Charlotte circus steam calliope to declare “we must insure justice.” Has she embraced my definition of “justice” as “the redistribution of violence” (i.e., that some collective identities of people must be punished in order to reinforce politically-motivated identities of other people)? As the so-called “rights” of human beings are increasingly defined in divisive, mutually-exclusive terms (e.g., “black lives matter”), perhaps a new spelling of “justice” would better serve its political purposes: “just us.”

The mainstream media will cheer Hillary’s remark, as doing so will place no burdens upon the vacuous character of the minds hired to recite the establishment’s party line. But there is a more important purpose to be served not only by the media, but by the rest of us that could be expressed in terms of “we must insure truth!” That such an approach would be fatal to the ambitions of politicians makes it unlikely such a change will be undertaken by the statists.

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