I actually had a liberal tell me once that it was unfair to expect representatives to risk their offices to pass unpopular legislation - the courts need to rule the progressive way on these issues because the people have been brainwashed by right-wing media and aren't smart enough to know what is in their own best interest.
“the courts need to rule the progressive way on these issues because the people have been brainwashed by right-wing media and aren’t smart enough to know what is in their own best interest.”
As C.S. Lewis said:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”