I think that "the people" tend to be conservative. The "sexual revolution" was, after all driven by the children of the elite. The Baby Boomers are split between the children of the upper classes and those of the lower classes. The latter usually vote against novelty. I mean, of course, the voters. That is why the elites have proceeded through the Courts, which are part of our social aristocracy.
They also tend to be self-serving. I would agree that if the damn elite somehow were removed from television and the pork industry eliminated in the state and federal governments, -- in oher words if people just voted in or out issue after issue without the indirection of talkiig heads, lawyers and politicians, then we'd move the country to the right. But the improvement would be marginal (and besides, there is a good reason to preserve the checks and balances inherent in a republican form of government). The notion that people should be able to vote on moral law is wrong fundamentally; it is wrong even if they tend to vote right.