Comment by danaris

"Justice" is not a scalar. It is a matrix, at best.

In some parts of America, and in some aspects, "justice" was still clearly increasing up until the second Trump presidency. This is especially true for the treatment of various marginalized groups (especially queer people, where it's quite obvious that "justice" for them increased markedly with the Obergefell v Hodges decision in 2015, and continued to improve in many ways after that).

In other areas and ways, it peaked before 9/11 and has dropped a great deal since.

In still others, it's been on a long slow decline since some time in the latter part of the 20th century.

And this is part of why some people are so angry these days: they see "justice" decreasing for them, while it increases for other people—including some of the people they've always considered to be beneath them—and they wrongly conclude that it's a zero-sum game, and they need to reduce justice for those other people in order to bring it back for them.