MB:
I would not worry overmuch if what you predict came true, assuming the gov't that flowed from it were truly
classically liberal and left the religious types to themselves. Toleration for toleration.
Heck, I would likely welcome it, but I doubt your prediction accurate without some sort of armed/violent revolution/civil conflict. The left / "socially and fiscally liberal" types have twisted language (tolerance = celebration, nowadays) and uses governmental and institutional power to ruin those that dissent.
Just look at the homosexual non-marriage debate: force of law, force of the MSM & other institutions brought down on individuals
pour encourager les autres. How many times do fellow-travelers have to be SWATted to drive them underground? How many of their buddys' employers have to be targeted and their own livelihoods threatened for them to throw in the towel & hunker down?
Don't expect many of those young non-religious(1) folk (already in a tough economy) to have the conviction to withstand such an assault. They will tack over and make like almost all the other "SL, FC" sorts. The odds favor it. Do you have some data that would suggest otherwise?
And, in keeping with APS tradition, thread veer! I have a new word for today (or, rather, a new meaning, I knew the noun version but not the adjective.)
Hmm, I learned about the
other noun, the cocktail (vodka or gin + lime juice). I will have to try that some time, as I love me some lime juice.
I wonder what came first: the gimlet or the screwdriver?
(1) Not just conviction brought about via moral suasion or supernatural means. Most religious types have an entire community to support them in the face of assaults from without. OTOH, libertarians are about as community-minded as housecats.