Looking for all the "usual suspects" again?
Cripes, blame the society. Politicians go where the people are. Otherwise, they are just ex-politicians.
If you don't like what the politicians are doing (or not doing), look back at the people whose votes put them in office.
This court decision had to with societal forces (such as entropy) well beyond the power of political figures to control.
Why would you expect the government, seated through democratic elections, to do anything else but represent the beliefs, values and desires of those that put them in office.
Your beef is truly with the society that America has become, aiming at the politicians is closing the barn door after the horses have gone, spitting into the wind, and many other cliches (!)
That morality has been driven from the public square and replaced with the relativism that comes from the absolute power of individual choice -- and in the collective, from the tyranny of opinion that rules the majority -- is not because of the politicians. They are merely the whores to the tyranny of opinion. And if society has fallen this far, the politicians will not save it.
Get off the soap box. How many politicians promise one thing, get elected, and then deliver something completely different? Such as Bill Clinton, who promised to make abortion, "safe, legal, and "rare". Well that scumbag had the chance to sign legislation making partial birth aborition illegal, but he vetoed it. So much for the "rare" part of his pledge. Nixon promised "peace with honor" and gave us peace with humiliation. George Bush senior talked incessantly of nominating a conservative Supreme Court Justice, and gave us David Souter, (barf). These are only a few examples of how we all get the shaft by the politicians, even when we do vote them out. They just get replaced by other snakes.
Your beef is truly with the society that America has become, aiming at the politicians is closing the barn door after the horses have gone, spitting into the wind, and many other cliches (!)
That morality has been driven from the public square and replaced with the relativism that comes from the absolute power of individual choice -- and in the collective, from the tyranny of opinion that rules the majority -- is not because of the politicians. They are merely the whores to the tyranny of opinion. And if society has fallen this far, the politicians will not save it.
Precisely! You hit the nail flush on the head!
This reactionary rant is reminiscent of those of post-9/11 leftists, who insisted the reasons al-Qaeda terrorists hate this country are the same reasons they do. Similarly, the author's charges have no basis in reality.
The fact of the matter is that no one who would have approached his or her tenure on the Supreme Court as a mission to restore America's "Christian Heritage" not only wouldn't be nominated by politicians who have to factor non-Christians into their campaigns, but SHOULDN'T be nominated. The Constitution, though written by the most part by men who were religious and whose moral code was based in belief in a Creator, never refers to this country as a "Christian nation."
You can like Pat Buchanan all you like, and say that America would be put into proper balance if he was choosing the Supreme jurists. But before that would happen, this country would have to experience a sea change that would make Buchanan a viable candidate.
Don't hold your breath.