Until a judge holds local prosecutors responsible for *systematic* selective enforcement of the laws (and it's upheld on appeal) the death spiral of blue counties will accelerate. >
Prosecutors, DA's and even attorneys general cannot be permitted to arrogate to themselves the legislatuve power of deciding what shall and shall not be illegal - much less to discriminate invidiously among law breakers. >
This is a probably a bigger problem than the very serious one of #noaccountability, i.e., absolute or even qualified immunity for prosecutors. >
Prosecutors in blue counties and cities now run for office, not on a law and order platform, but precisely the opposite. >
The old saw that says "when the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" presents a relatively mild threat compared to the unlawful and those who support them voting themselves less law in the person of a prosecutor. >
Economic systems come and go, and given enough time a fundamentally robust economic system can usually recover from even a sustained burst of profligate spending.

Free enterprise is natural to human nature and needs only a little sun and air to flourish. >
As Burke said, however, “The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.” <>
P.S. I addressed some of these issues from a different perspective last year in @humanevents https://twitter.com/roncoleman/status/1284234931917520898?s=21
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