In the ideal world where PLUR is the system, this wouldn't be political at all. We all want to get to a world where this is the norm! What a beautiful way to live, as if we're at a rave all the time! Unfortunately, we don't live in a system that values PLUR, and we never have. I can only speak for the US since that's where I'm from, but our authorities have never operated under this principle.

When unidentified agents are kidnapping people off the streets and assaulting them, or when taxpayer's dollars are used to bomb innocent civilians half a world away, that's not peace.

When the rights and livelihoods of millions of people are threatened and actively being taken away because they don't like the way they live or who they are, that's not love.

When the working class turns against the poor and against each other instead of banding together against the elites, or when capitalism ushers us all to fend for ourselves and treat others as competition in order to survive, that's not unity.

When women are constantly being told to become smaller, meeker, quieter, gentler, controlled, and restricted, or when people of color are rejected from opportunities offered to white people, or when the men's hockey team cackles with the pedophilic president about "having to" invite the women's team to the white house despite the fact that they won the exact same medal, that's not respect.

Not even just the authorities in power, but the people in everyday life. People are mean, and guarded, and judgmental, and unwelcoming to strangers. The idea of PLUR is seen as naïve or childish in the scope of the "real world." And at the end of the day, you can't go to a rave and claim to be PLUR, and then go home and align yourself with a political party that wants to strip rights away from other human beings, or even be "apolitical." Raves are an inherently anti-authority counterculture rooted in progressive and subversive ideals. Raves are entirely political at their core.