Yep this is the real answer. The real answer is "we've managed to use money to work the system so only people we target will be subject to consequences."

100%

Even in the UK we have a moderately left wing potential candidate for Prime Minister who's already being heavily criticised by the right wing media.

The sad thing is that people lap it up. When I was 13 I could see that our newspapers were wildly biased. I don't really think of myself as being above average intelligence, but at 48 I marvel that any reasonable person would read and believe that garbage.