Prospective dates in Northern Ireland, be they promises of health reform or promises to start being good and pluralist, we now know from the last twenty five year dates generate interim timelines not deadlines.

Source: https://sluggerotoole.com/2023/12/19/as-another-deadline-goes-whooshing-past-ni-continues-to-choke-on-its-indigestible-form-of-consociationalism/

“Pursuing the common good in a pluralist democracy is not possible without making compromises.

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/05/its-time-for-a-change-in-how-lawmakers-do-the-peoples-work/

The agreement that allowed for a semblance of pluralist democracy to appear is not enough for them because it gives too much room for Catalans to pursue freedom.”

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23628000.spanish-general-election-catalonia-watches-waits/?ref=rss

They say that this might allow the government — the most ultranationalist and ultraconservative in Israeli history — to build a much less pluralist society.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protest-march-israel.html