One societal divide is between those who define and those who wish to leave things fuzzy and up in the air.
Those who claim that there are no definitions are actually poised to take control, and then they will be the definers.
Be wary of them.
Another divide is between those who hold by sexual purity and those who do not.
A relativist society assumes that off-handed comments, facial expressions, and body language shape one's basic assumptions. Relativism must create an atmosphere in which facts have no place.
This affects people's interactions. Relativists must push away the conservative and the traditional, because they interfere with an atmosphere. They must inter-personally provoke the conservative or traditional.
This does not apply simply to who the relativist senses you vote for, but to the mentality that you have. I knew a woman who was basically a relativist but voted republican. No one provoked her, as it was a given that she just had a different idea regarding governance. Her friends were other liberal relativists and she was the odd one out regarding voting, but not regarding lifestyle.
In that group was a couple who were former Catholics. It was okay if they attended Catholic church on holidays, but they never could have been in that clique if they were still strong Catholics, and why not? Because relativists feel a subconscious need, or maybe a conscious one, to push back at the following concepts, which they sense you are holding by, so that these concepts do not creep into their fragile atmosphere:
Sexual purity: waiting until marriage, loyalty in marriage. You can have loyalty in marriage if you are lucky but it should not be some absolute value, I mean, what a pity that Jackie Onassis's boyfriend's wife would not grant him a divorce, Jackie is so great, she should be able to steal a man from whomever she wants.
You know, it really is the sexual purity that is the major divide. Relativists do not want that in their atmosphere, they push back on it, and do not want anyone around who may make an off-handed comment that reflects a value on waiting and loyalty.
They do not want to hear:
"My daughter will be living at home and attending college so she does not have to share mixed-gender bathrooms or dorms."
"My son is attending an all men's college so as to keep his mind focused on his studies, there really is no reason to date until he is ready to get married."
"My son will not date until he is ready to marry, I told him that, I think that after college graduation he can date, but he wants to wait until he completes his master's"
"I was thinking of taking an evening course but evenings are the time to spend with my teens, a strong family is so important."
I never heard liberals say the above comments, I never met liberals who hold by chastity and loyalty.
When you are in liberal society, they always have to bring up some story of a horrible religious person, even if they never met one. They cannot live and let live, because they cannot let in concepts of definition and sexual purity.
Victimhood
Relativists like the concept of victimhood, yet somehow they worked hard in college and at their well-paying jobs to attain the lifestyle that have. They like the idea that minorities are victims, and will not acknowledge in a real way the accomplishments of minorities and consider thus jettisoning the victim mentality.
They may like the victim mentality because it gets them off the hook for personal responsibility, which is an ingredient in sexual purity and the concept that you can wait and you can remain loyal.
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