"That remarkable thing, is even though more than half the public strongly disagreed with it [Bush v. Gore], thought it was really wrong, they followed it," Breyer said. "And the alternative, using guns, having revolutions, is a worse alternative.
"And it's taken quite a long time, many, many years, decades and decades for Americans to come to that understanding. And that fact -- that America will follow court decisions made by fallible human beings, even when those decisions are very unpopular -- has not always been true."
In other words, Breyer believes it is preferable for Americans to accept an anti-democratic judgment made by five partisans in black robes than to rise up in outrage against a powerful institution that has usurped the role of the voters and overturned the consent of the governed.
Yet, is that acquiescence really preferable to the courageous actions by people all over the world who have staged protests and risked their lives in defense of democracy when autocratic rulers have refused to accept the results of an election?
A decade after the fateful court ruling with the results of Bush's presidency now painfully apparent and his own appointed justices helping to open the floodgates of special-interest money to further distort the democratic process Bush v. Gore must be viewed as a moment when the United States started down a very dark road.
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