Having absolute power, and being in addition beyond recall, the Court acts as a Ministry of Culture while pretending to fulfill judicial functions. Its decisions issue in Constitutional garb, but in fact represent the views of the elite. The court has the power to impose its will, and does. The people passively obey. Presidential elections are not about policy, but about the division of power.
Electoral victory determines the apportioning of various spoils.
Neither party, however, will address crucial matters of policy. For example, neither will do anything about the abysmal state of education, the precipitous decline of the military, the unchanging morass of racial relations, unchecked immigration, crime, or the perfusion of drugs through the schools. Eight years hence, things will be as they are now, except that various freedoms will have been marginally reduced. Again, America is succeeding where the Soviet Union failed. Fred Reed 2000.