When Justice Becomes a Costume: How Partisanship Masquerades as Principle
In an era saturated with political outrage, justice has too often been stripped of its meaning and repurposed as a partisan weapon. The evidence of this is everywhere. The very people who demand accountability with righteous fury when their opponents face legal consequences are often the first to cry “witch hunt” when someone from their own camp is under scrutiny. It’s not about facts or fairness, it’s about which flag you’re flying. And that’s not justice. That’s performance.
Discernment refuses to play by those rules.
Justice, if it is to mean anything at all, must be grounded in consistency. It must ask the same questions no matter whose name appears on the docket: Was the law broken? Is the evidence credible? Were the procedures fair? Truth doesn’t shift based on party lines, and principles don’t bend to accommodate personal allegiances. When justice is only cheered for the “other side,” it becomes something else entirely: tribal punishment disguised as virtue.
If you find yourself celebrating indictments when they align with your worldview and dismissing them as political theater when they don’t, what you’re practicing isn’t discernment, it’s narrative management. You’re not defending the rule of law; you’re using it as a tool to protect your own ideological territory.
Discernment means refusing that trade. It means holding yourself to the same standard you demand from others. It means standing for truth even when it’s inconvenient, even when it lands close to home.
Because if we abandon that clarity, if we reduce justice to a scoreboard, then we haven’t elevated our politics, we’ve debased our principles.
Let’s raise the standard.
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