Fighting the Wrong Fight Pt 2

Called the Hugh Hewitt Show and gave a brief summary of the post immediately below. Hugh's response was that the structural problems can't be solved, the Marriage Amendment is the only practicable approach. That may well be true in this instance, since thorough going reform would take a long time. Nevertheless, if these out of step institutions are not made somewhat more responsive, than these kinds of fights are now a perennial feature of American society. Its not satisfactory to just accept constant discord over social issues where the preponderance of will is so one-sided, and where neither of the two contending political positions reflects the great mass of Americans. So, I contend that we must continue to explore the nature of desirable reform so that the will of the people is not thwarted by institutionalized power in the hands of radicals.

In a related note, Hewitt argued there was no long term solution, at least to the judge problem. "Its a republic, if you can keep it." Hugh reminds us of one of Franklin's last pronouncements. But the early republic was far more legislative than our current system. The legislature has given way to the courts and the executive over the last two centuries. I do not think that this is inevitable or unsolvable. I'd much rather be posting on an Amendment to tilt power back to the legislature than on one to address the symptoms of a larger problem.