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The headline really should be Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, ineligible to run for public office for X years.

Seems like a reasonable policy we should adopt in the US…

Wouldn't matter. Trump is already a felon and should be ineligible. We have at least two parallel lehal systems in the US, probably more. The more "important" you are the less the rules are able to touch you. That's the american way.

This aligns with America's original "sin", rule of law versus a disguised aristocracy. It's always there beneath the surface.

People find the dream of hitting the jackpot far more appealing than creating a genuinely classless society.

Exactly. For better or worse, and whether or not people realize that we have basically inherited and mutated the English class system, except instead of being defined by your birth lineage, it's now defined by how much money you have. I guess you could call that egalitarian in the way that the British call their private schools, "public schools", meaning that anyone with an adequate amount of money is allowed to attend them.

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