Rittenhouse Breaks Down on the Stand

 

Watching Kyle Rittenhouse break into tears on the witness stand today impressed me once again with the reality of evil. It looks like pure evil that the prosecutors brought this case to trial. It was obvious from the beginning that it was self-defense, and Rittenhouse, although just a kid, behaved admirably. It is grossly unjust that he must nevertheless stand in peril of his life once again in court. The prosecutors knew this, and they went to trial for political reasons. 

Go Fund Me was even worse. They did what they could to prevent Rittenhouse from raising funds to defend himself.

The experience of the pandemic has also opened my eyes. I thought that, faced with this crisis, we would put aside personal ambitions and pull together. My assumption, although I should have known better, was that we were all, or at least those in power were, basically good people who sometimes give in to temptations. This is clearly not so. To the contrary, the average person in power is apparently depraved. It seems obvious that the politicians, several drug companies, the deep state, saw instead an opportunity to exploit.

Was this always the case? Or have we, in recent generations, failed to inculcate our ruling class with the basics of morality? I think the latter.