Welcome to double-standard America | Salon

Certainly, for all the connotations of fairness inherent in American politics’ “country of law” catchphrases, most of us know that the selective application of legal principles is as old as the Republic. However, lots of us are only now discovering that inequality is so pronounced that the time of day we bathe determines the enforcement and reliability (or lack thereof) of even the most basic contracts.

We are just realizing that for all the parroting of America’s second president, we are ruled by a government of men, and not of laws.