Where's the Outrage?

In the comments, Jeff the Baptist writes on the subject of overreaching federal judges:

The activist federal judge is the "big man" villian of the western in any case. He has the system working for him so he doesn't need to whoop or holler, he just sends his hired guns out to execute his desires with orders from his bench.

The root of this problem is that it has become politically acceptable in American society at large to ignore the plain text of the U.S. Constitution, which strictly limits the powers of the federal government. Since the so-called Progressive Era, the American people have expected the feds to intrude into every sector of public and private life without the task of passing a Constitutional amendment to permit such an expansion. The President and Congress have done it for a century. Now the judges are moving into this racket. Let's not be surprised that they can get away with it -- the American people love Big Brother, or else we wouldn't even have Social Security, Medicare, and the Department of Education, let alone talk about reforming them.

Bottom line: fillibuster nominations, impeach wild judges, whatever. These are not real cures because they do not address the actual problem: Americans (in general) no longer believe in limited government.