If you simultaneously had a conscience, a brain, and a set of (at least psychological) balls between 2001 and 2008, you were a deprecated minority even among rank-in-file Democrats. You were the resented troublemaker doing everything in your power to patiently explain to the spineless, group-thinking robots around you that torture was not a difference of opinion, that mass-murdering wars of conquest were not a partisan policy dispute with two legitimate sides, and that a man who had stolen office and then promptly cancelled the US Constitution was not a legitimate authority in our nation. Every single word from this element was a rationalization for why the horrors unfolding around us were normal, why opposition to anything Bush was doing was just a matter of "opinion," why any remotely proportional solution to it was just plain crazy, and why the best counsel was simply to wait it out. Demands to impeach Bush were spat on as the lowest form of naivete.
Thanks to that mentality, we got eight years of George W. Bush, lost the US economy, renewed the 5-4 conservative Supreme Court majority that put him in power with two more members, and have gotten an endless series of lawless SCOTUS rulings and unelected/gerrymandered GOP majorities as a result. Always the response is the same limp Potemkin farce of opposition: Don't worry, we'll pass legislation! We'll pass Constitutional Amendments! But then it doesn't happen, and the people who told us to focus on that instead of fixing the root of the problem want you to shut up and go to sleep until the cycle repeats itself. Since the end of the Bush era - or at least the Executive side of that era, even though we're still contending with its Judicial branch consequences - we've now gone through at least three of these cycles of being told not to see what's going on; being told to just do the same lame, institutionally-directed things over and over without ever coming near to success.
Because Barack Obama won election in 2008 with small donors, the Supreme Court created by tyrant Bush decided almost immediately afterward that they were going to reconsider campaign finance limits and predictably ruled 5-4 that such limits were impermissible, guaranteeing the GOP sweep in 2010. The fact that it was a thoroughly lawless, arbitrary, and partisan ruling simply designed to determine the outcome of elections in favor of Republicans wasn't a favored topic of discussion in the Democratic Party establishment or its homunculi among the rank-and-file. They simply said "No, no, no - that's just your opinion. Go back to sleep. Work to pass more legislation or Constitutional Amendments for these crooks to strike down or ignore rather than wasting yourself on some fool's errand to deal with the root of the problem." Well, three years later, there's been no movement in that direction. There is zero chance of passing legislation or Constitutional Amendments addressing Citizens United, partly because of the very GOP House majority the decision enabled. They've got it locked up air-tight, and the Institutional Minds who refused to acknowledge what was going on refuse to learn from their failure.
Bush's SCOTUS majority has also largely upheld or else refused to intervene against Republican gerrymandering that has given them the ability to hold legislative majorities on both state and federal levels despite losing the popular vote. There has been no forward motion on that front either, so Bravo to the Denialist contingent. But when even those tactics failed to prevent Democratic victory in 2012, the Court saw the demographic writing on the wall and promptly decided to ignore the Constitution and decades of civil rights jurisprudence to strike down key enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act - which you might recall was also a piece of legislation, so I guess the solution is just to pass more for them to arbitrarily strike down yet again. Or let's pass another Constitutional Amendment saying "We really, truly, super-duper MEAN IT this time that Congress has the right to pass laws protecting the right to vote and the Executive has the authority to enforce those laws." That ought to stop the Roberts Court from ignoring it, unlike all the other Articles and Amendments to the Constitution they simply ignore when they find them inconvenient.
Or we can stop playing chickenshit self-deception games and accept that no matter how hard the task is of removing this odious, lawless, and abusive majority from the Court, that's what we are called upon to do by the nature of the problem. If we had had the courage of real citizens to accept that removing Bush from power was the nature of our task in 2001 onward, no matter how great the apparent political difficulty, maybe we would not be facing these same problems with interest today. But unlike Bush, these Justices will not leave the Court any time soon - at least not under a Democratic President. This cycle of lawless attacks on our republic will not end until we end it. Ignore the Wormtongue voices counseling feebleness and denial - place their "advice" in the proper context of historical irrelevance that it's been in ever since the radicalization of the Republican Party.
Stand up and demand the IMPEACHMENT the lawless Roberts Court majority, or just don't even pretend to be part of anything more consequential than the same feeble Potemkin opposition that had been offered in the Bush years. I have no interest in pursuing legislation they would just strike down, Constitutional Amendments they would just ignore, or focusing only on elections that their rulings constantly seek to rig and undermine. They are the root of the problem, and we will either deal with that or every other effort will simply be wasted. We need no one's permission to stand up for what is right and necessary - not our Party leaders, not Villager pundits, and not their pathetic wannabes among us who still think the Bush years were one big difference of opinion. Impeach now, or forever hold your peace when the next outrage happens.