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I don't agree, Michelle. The way to consider this is

(1) What has lazy defeatism achieved in the last 50-60 years? And the answer to that is, indeed, absolutely nothing. In finance, there's something called "backtesting". You backtest an investment strategy by going back and seeing how it would have worked over the last several years. If it did not work, it's a poor strategy. If it worked, it's fine.

(2) What has working within the system achieved in the last 10-25 years? And the answer is (1) overturning Roe v Wade and (2) Summorum Pontificuм which to me were both big wins. So I see it differently. But let's each do what we believe to be right and the fruits of each approach will be evident in time and thus will point to where Truth lies.

Because it's important, the way that poster condemns people he would condemn Constantine the Great in an instant if he lived in such a time and then there goes the early Church. Like I said, those who give up, condemn, blame others etc because they don't get perfection overnight will never create anything.

He is also a joke, everything he accuses myself of he himself is actually guilty of... for he votes on a state anti-abortion bill yet the one vote that actually mattered and which all the rest depended on he totally spurned and condemned those who didn't. If Hαɾɾιs had won, they would have reinstated Roe v Wade among MUCH more and his little token holier than thou vote wouldn't have been worth anything...

God Bless

Your frequent use of Constantine is contradictory. On one end, you use the Edict of Milan to prove Catholics should vote (as if any President could or would make an "edict") then you turn around and say he was baptized by a heretic on his deathbed. So yeah this is how it works: if Constantine were up for election at the time of his victory at the Milvian Bridge, I would vote for him fresh off that willingness to use a new symbol for Christ on his banner... but if you fast forward and stage an election just after he ordered the Bishop Alexander to accept Arius back into the Hagia Sophia, I would do the same as I did for this silly election.

The main point though is that having every ruler subject to the lowest common denominator would almost certainly assure that the will of God for any particular country would be choked off well before a worthy human being actually followed through. I fully believe Christianity would never have been spread without the monarchical structure of late antiquity. There was a reason the Pax Romana happened when it did, when the peak of Christendom occurred and when the period of revolution chose the form of republics. There are also plenty of reasons why Constantine will never be canonized a saint in the Catholic Church. I would also never have voted for Joseph Stalin even after he outlawed abortion.

An emperor should be focused on serving God and the Church, not holding popularity contests every four years. I would be content for any number of bishops if not the Pope himself to correct him in these matters. If he were a truly worthy emperor he would allow for the criticism and corrected himself. Barring that, prayer for the nation's leader is my vote.