The stakes are higher than single issues

Thomas Sowell: Once in a lifetime:

"With the agenda of the political left increasingly rejected by voters at the polls, the only way to get the items on that agenda enacted into law is to have judges who will decree the liberal agenda from the bench. Too many judges have already done that on everything from gay marriage to racial quotas and the death penalty.

It is not these or other particular issues which are the highest stakes. The highest stakes are democratic self-governance versus judicial fiats that threaten to make a mockery of the American system of government by elected officials."

As always, Sowell has a way of looking past the immediacy of the moment in time and sees the bigger impact.