The point of relativity is relationships. You have your own point of view and everyone else has theirs. Relativity encourages you to relate one point of view to the other, and give room for a wide variety of ideas.
In my version of relativity a basis of relationships negates the non-issue of relativism being a permissive philosophy because you can in fact judge relationships, on practical as well as other grounds, such as the master-slave relationship, and prohibit them if necessary. It is in fact more practical to address relationships than to prove the "fundamental nature" of any man or woman.
We have a relativistic political system already in the US Constitution, that's what individual liberty is all about.
Liberalism is relativity.
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Every statement or proposition must be given with respect to a point of view. The relationship between the witness and the witnessed is part of the statement itself. For dogmatists this is in order to prejudge, but for a relativist who is less likely to prejudge, this is to have handy information about the point of view.
You first use this information to allow contradictory points of view to coexists by perceiving some dimension of compatibility.
If the conflict persists, you use it to find compromises for their conflict. And if there is no way to for that and the conflict is real such that one or the other must hold sway, then in those cases use agreed on mechanisms of social decision making such as elections. That is your final civil result from relatives.
The world is based on relative principles from top to bottom. Relativity is how we can explain things like progressive christian voters in alliance with bohemian atheists with union labor with environmentalist with civil rights activists and so in one coalition.
It explains how we see the nation itself also existing as a relativist coalition in which we first agree to disagree on anything we can, and to agree on the rest.
Relativity is a perspective from which we can explain our inclinations to help the individual to be free because considering relationships means you can't isolate the individual if you are to address their freedom.
This all means progressives talking in terms of relationships.