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"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

Suppose there was a "political" choice that said speech critical of the president was illegal?

Under Roberts logic he would be just fine with that.

I don't think Roberts would so rule. However, if Congress passed a law taxing speech critical of the president, he might rule THAT Constitutional on the basis of the taxing power, as long as the tax wasn't “punitive" of course.

Since that sort of political choice ALSO violates the First Amendment, I doubt he would have been fine with it.

Any brute force ruling against zerOcare would have been quickly turned against us, since emotion rules the Left. They would have loved it and turned the sledgehammer back on us with the usual force multipliers.

Conservatives are about reality, self-sufficiency and independence. So, can everyone just stop the drama, look at what exists and go on from there?

I have read, over eleven years on this forum, hosannas to one or another politician who was supposedly the one that was going to save us. I have been flamed by putative puffed-up patriots with principals when I usually warned against investing any human being with such powers. And, usually within six months to a year, the annointed savior would then act in a manner inconsistent with the adoration heaped upon them, resulting in such logical pronouncements as “They are dead to me.”

No one is going to save anyone else. No one is consistent. We are all human. We can’t even agree among ourselves to forgo partisanship in order to gain advantage. We either work together with cool heads and a firm goal in mind, or we will be individually and collectively subjugated.

In this case, Roberts handed us some gifts, but on a dirty platter. So, what do conservatives do? Why, reject the gifts, the clear advantages, and throw them back in his face along with the offensive platter and heated epithets.

Tell me again why we usually lose?