Conversely, anyone who argues against this sprucing up of history, while living same-sex couples are jeered at for walking hand in hand, is at risk of looking less enlightened than the party containing Peter Bone.
The more enlightened members of the party's leadership, such as Tibor Navracsics, the deputy prime minister, have been co-opted and remain silent.
They will give in on, say, Social Security privatization or income tax "reform" and will continue to dream their happy dreams about becoming the party of the enlightened corporate class.
(And how shocking to learn that this is going on in a Democratic primary... haven't we always been instructed that the Democrat Party is the party of the enlightened?!).
The defeat of cap-and-trade legislation and the stillborn push for immigration reform exposed the deep fissures within the Democratic Party, and particularly the divide between the enlightened do-goodism of the party's upper-middle-class supporters and the economic interests of its remaining blue-collar constituents.
The settlement between the two, their alternation in power, and the influence of an enlightened monarch produced a two-party system that gave Spain stability, containing once visceral divisions and sustaining a rapid economic development which had begun under Franco and which has faltered only recently.
Transactional analysis and study of other market dynamics is wont; the enlightened self-interest of the parties in the exchange, a universal motivator, is not openly explored.
Proponents of neo-authoritarianism in China believed that in order to progress towards greater democracy, China needed strong, enlightened leadership that would keep the party in power during the long process of economic and political restructuring.
With Ukipers defecting to the Tories en-masse post-Brexit, and the rhetoric coming from the leadership going in that direction, it's clear that not everyone in the party has such an enlightened view as my new duchess friend.
The Deng Yujiao case has not led to calls for an end to one-party rule, only for more enlightened government.
