Rules-based, like our Constitution, I can live with that.
What I see today, the whole gnashing of teeth and spitting nails, is exactly what happens when gov’t gets too big and is no longer held to those ‘base rules’. Sucks, eh?
We (the People) have allowed the courts to allow the Fed to social-structure using the tax code and (Unconstitutional) bennies, then wonder why the courts say “Nope, even out the field, apply it to ABC, XYZ, etc.”
Gov’t, at any level, has no business defining/regulating marriage. All else falls into a contractual basis with an easy solution: Wills. Otherwise, can’t prove it, it didn’t happen.
What happened is that libertarianism and the leftists, have moved America so far left in the last 50 years, that the real Americans are too vastly outnumbered, and the left/libertarians are winning the culture.
This was yet another victory for libertarians and leftists in their war against conservatism, America, and God.