t them all as serious. They've got to do a little judgment on, okay this one looks like it'll blow up. Maybe this one isn't such a big problem. But they don't know. They have to guess because otherwise you can't get to all the work. So I tend to be more forgiving than most when I hear a story like the FBI talked to this person and all the signs were there but they didn't act. Because I've got a feeling the signs are there with a lot of people who don't act. And I would imagine the FBI knows that. It's like, you know, there'd be a lot of people we could arrest based on the suspicion that might happen, but you need a lot more than that. You know, we still live in a free country. You can't be arrested because somebody suspects you might want to commit a crime.

All right, Brian says you've lost trust with every element of our justice system. Well let me give you some perspective. Do you believe that our justice system is worse than any time in history? I bet not. I'll bet if you had any way to objectively rate the justice system in the United States and then if you had magically the same ratings across time, I'll bet it's better than it's ever been. But we just might have more information about the bad stuff. So I'm not positive, but I think it's probably better and probably a lot better. That would be my guess. My guess would be a lot better. Not even close. But those of you who say it's worse, keep in mind that you're seeing non-stop bad news because bad news is the only news about the justice system. If the justice system just does its job, that's not news. So the only news you're hearing is the problems. Just keep that in mind. I wouldn't automatically think the justice system is a disaster.

And I would say that if you're looking at what the purpose of the justice system is, is to keep society together, right? If you lose our justice system, the whole thing falls apart. I think you'd agree with that, right? So the justice system is mostly about keeping the wheels on. And has it done that? And has it made the United States a place that people want to leave their country and live here in part because our justice system is better? I'd say yes. If I were to give our entire justice system a grade, I'd have to grade it against other countries. If you grade our justice system against some notion of perfect, it's pretty bad, right? Because it's not perfect. It's not too close to perfect. So if that's your standard, yeah it's a mess. But if you compare it to other countries, not bad. It's not bad. And if you look at it at a functional level, does it make people want to come here? Does it allow our commerce system to work efficiently? Because commerce requires a judicial system. You can't do commerce unless you can sue somebody who screws you, right? Nothing works unless you've got a judiciary. So I would say our commerce system is working great, which suggests that the foundation for it, the legal system, is at least doing a sufficient job if not spectacular.

So Henry says they threw the January 6 people into solitary confinement. Yeah, individual mistakes. Yes, there are plenty of individual mistakes, and we should not lose sight of that. The justice system is not the sort of thing that's going to work perfectly all day long. It's the sort of thing that's going to be breaking continually, and you just got to keep fixing it continually, which we do. The very fact that you're aware of the fact that those people were put in solitary, which by the way I'm not entirely sure is true, but if there's enough transparency to put pressure on that, at least there's some counterforce and maybe that makes a difference.

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