I'm not a doubter or a hater. I just know politicians do throw bones to the constituents WHEN those constituents put pressure on them. What I contend is that if a politician doesn't CONSISTENTLY advocate common-sensically just approaches to policies, I have no reason to believe that they are doing so for ethical reasons when they DO. They may just be playing good practical politics.

During the 80's (probably under Reagan's 1st term) the Republicans talked big about returning to the State their 10th Amendment powers. Never happened. It was just that people were quite mad at the time and they told the people what they wanted to hear. Same kind of SOFA is occurring now. People are quite mad. Politicians all of a sudden act "enlightened."

You can see it all through American history. These things are short-lived because people can't stay mad forever. Eventually, they start "taking it" again when nothing of consequence changes. Read history and you will see that even if postmillenialism is true, there is nothing that happens in the short run that has any long range implications for progress.

But we should make the most of it. No doubt about that. Never relax. Never be deceived by those who "deceive the innocent with praise and well-speaking," as Paul said. The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance from significant numbers of people. It's getting significant numbers to stick with it that constitutes the difficulty of the situation. The further "gone" the SOFA is, the harder is the task, the more numbers it will take to turn it around, and the more one-minded in strategy we must be (because politicians survive by divide and conquer strategy).

The natural tendency is to the path of least resistance. All kinds of things are lawful. Love acts beyond the merely "lawful." Love SUFFERS LONG. Getting enough people to do that with political activism has apparently not occurred throughout human history.