You are right. It's going to get worse.
Yup...
America has not learned it's lesson yet...
Haggai 1:5-11
5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says:
Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. 9 You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the Lord Almighty. Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
“then the only link between law and morals is based on political power.”
Very true. Another consequence of that is those who are in the minority will be more likely to disobey the laws, since they won’t recognize them as fair laws, but simply impositions to be dispensed with when it is convenient.