"...A free society has to take its politics and its politicians seriously as individuals--no matter what their demographic characteristics have been, or may be...." DK
This is a distinctively American anarcho multiculturalist, as distinct from a European Western radical democratic, point of view.
At a more basic level, the reality has been shown to be that so called free societies, based on what is called a democratic principle, are a distinctively Western civilizational concept, which has not and will not ever travel well to others.
Western individualism has been, and remains, a rogue political principle, no less than a philosophical one, even within the Western Civilization tradition itself.
Individuals, American politicians, bereft of demographic characteristics, are like M & Ms without colors. They might just as well be marshmallows or Martians.
On the other hand, how could one take an individual colored M & M seriously, politically, regardless of its color?
One might as well say "I vote for that narrow ring, in that rainbow."
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