John James and Dale Olsen were both very unhappy with the Supreme Court decisions of the last couple of days. James provided a litany of America’s troubles (blaming them on Obama of course) without even mentioning the Reagan/Bush tax cuts, the Iraq war, or seven years of Congressional obstruction. Olsen lamented the “damage. . . to our souls”. Both hinted at the election of 2016 being a kind of Armageddon for conservatism. Actually, the conservatism represented by these opinions doesn’t even have a soul. It has survived on a “them against us” ideology for decades, which has vigorously resisted every positive initiative and fostered nothing but negative obstructionism, prolonging the recession and putting America even further behind. The election of 2016 does, indeed, represent one last critical hope to avoid conservative control of all three branches of government: Congress, Supreme Court, and the presidency. Our next president will determine either the intensified polarization of the court, or a return to its Constitutionally-mandated impartiality for decades to come.