Technology has rendered completely obsolete the very idea that government authorities can control morality and culture. Politicians may still give speeches about these things, but everyones know the talk is just reactionary twaddle. All of this should be very reassuring. Most of us will not leave the country, not in person and not by wire. We will not have to.
Most politicians are pragmatists.
Bill Clinton understands this. Like James Carville, he learned that the bond market runs the most powerful polls of all. Clinton ran as a budget conservative. The trend is already clear in monetary and fiscal matters, where the competition for good government is the fiercest. Wired financial markets are less volatile and much more honest.