[inglor_cz]

Well that is the point. Consequences for "bad" behavior should not be equal in cases when 90 per cent of population agrees and when 40 per cent of population agrees.

Let us stop thinking about racism and homophobia for a moment and think of marijuana legalization instead. This is precisely the case when an aggresive intolerant minority used to destroy people over nothing. Most legalization projects were pushed through by ballots, where the aggressive intolerant minority could not intimidate the voters into silence.

Interestingly, the vote results usually did not align with the partisanship of the voters. There is much more ideological diversity within the parties than generally recognized.

And, as a result, many people no longer "face consequences" for smoking weed that only a vocal minority considers taboo.

[pjc50]

In the US marijuana legalization exists in a superposition: it's still illegal federally, just not enforced by the states. Sometimes it's also enforced by drug testing employers, even in places where it's legal by state law.

> There is much more ideological diversity within the parties than generally recognized.

Party discipline (yes, on both sides) aims to suppress that. e.g https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/republicans-who-vot...