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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (34971)	10/23/2001 7:15:48 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No wishful thinking involved. Given our current institutions and societal biases, a sea change in public sentiment would be necessary to legislate the "cultural democratic" agenda. Given the attack on popular sovereignty and liberal ideals, and the alienation from popular sentiment of the post- Marxist professoriate, it is not at all likely to get any traction any time soon. Merely extending into a remote future, although it allows for more contingencies to come into play, does not make it terribly more likely, it merely makes it hard to assess. But the trends are against it. Demographically, for example, it is mainly the more conservative groups in society who are having children. Additionally, the drive to promote "human rights" and freedom of conscience internationally has much more support than any drive to relativize according to ethnic custom. Even the relativizers have hit various brick walls, like the practice of clitorectomy in East Africa, or the continuation of the slave trade in Sudan and Madagascar. Finally, why would the majority vote itself out of power?