Liberals, libertarians, diversity, multiculturalism, federalism, and states' rights

So, they'd be OK with establishment of Buddhism and vegetarianism in Hawaii, Mormonism and polygamy in Utah, and Catholicism (no divorce, no abortion, no contraception, no porn, and prison for gays) in Massachusetts?

Bare-knuckle capitalism in Texas (no public schools, no vouchers, and no regulation of education) and communism in Rhode Island (political correctness triumphant in education and everything else)?

Plebiscitary democracy in California with universal suffrage at twelve  - foreigners, illegals, prisoners, and sea-mammals included - while in Georgia the governor and senate are life-tenured and only landowning males above forty can vote?

Japanese the official language of Hawaii and Spanish of Arizona?

No known political faction in America would stand for any of this.

Nearly everything they claim to stand for is baloney.

Hell, most politically committed Americans can't stand the idea of that much real diversity on the planet, let alone in our own country.

Normative political and social theory is a subdivision of normative ethics.

Of morality, in other words.

And it is every bit as absolute and universalist.

And every bit as committed to coercion, and universal coercion at that.

The mullahs want to subjugate the world to Allah.

The neocons want to conquer the world for "democratic capitalism."

The feminists want to make the whole world defer to women's rights, and the liberals want to make the whole world secularist, anti-racist, anti-nationalist, and gay friendly.

And religion?

They're all equal and must never contradict natural science or the moral authority of the left gurus of political correctness, anywhere in the world.

And perhaps the remaining reds still wait with longing for a world revolution to destroy capitalism and at last save all mankind.

On the other hand, ordinarily, atheist, amoralist egoists could not care less about you and your doings if you lived on a planet circling Alpha Centauri a thousand years ago rather than right now, right next door.

In fact, they might rather prefer that of you and all but a select few fellow humans, if the advantages of civilization over the life of a mountain man were not so telling.

Oh, all right.

I exaggerate.