This has been bugging me for quite a while now. My brain attacks it from one angle and then another but can't get through; it's frustrating because I know there's something there but I don't know what.
So:
Politics is supposed to be about the best balance...the art of compromise. Two or more groups with disparate viewpoints get together and start negotiating. Nobody can have everything, but the result is hopefully that you have more than you started with, namely, an environment where all groups can try to live together in preparation for more negotiation.
Each political issue is a power struggle, but not one that happens in a vacuum. Things like racism, rights, the environment, the social order, drug laws, immigration, abortion, stem cells, corporate power, keeping the sheep in line, etc etc etc, all have their importance.
Here's my question.
If you somehow (magically) had a view of the perfect political America, where every single group could coexist peacefully, would you support it?
This "perfect political America" would most likely be hard to believe or swallow. There would be sanctioned pockets of racism. Abortion would be illegal in some counties, legal in others. Protestant whites would be bussed to inner-city Compton schools. Heroin trafficing would be punishable by death in some places where dildos were given to children as door prizes. Iraq would be declared liberated, evacuated to Australia, and the Tigris River salted so nothing could grow there.
Despite the fact that you would disagree with many of the solutions that were in effect to solve problems that you might not agree were problems, would you support the perfect political America?