Order, the Populist Right, and Ethnopluralism

Both big government and big business tend to destroy the natural exclusiveness of localism, small states, and even nations. We need not be against trading with the world but against being devoured by the world, where everything becomes subservient to bigness.

Contending against big government and big business is of course not easy, they have immense wealth and power. It seems to me that some form of populism which promotes the natural rights inherent in localism seems possible. But populism has been exploited by both the left and the right. The populist left tends to like big government and hate big business, whereas the the populist right tends to hate both big government and big business, which seems like the healthier way to go.

The United States Constitution seems to me to be on the side of the populist right. Libertarians move in localist directions but their hyper-individualism overlooks the centrality of group-selection in real human nature which tends to allow powerful individuals to return to bigness and exploitation.

I would like to see localism and the rights of small states eventually deepen to include an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which could bring the longest-term order---if their independence was protected by a light federalism. The order of society depends on the process of appropriation and assimilation and if the process of assimilation does not succeed the whole organism falls apart and separation occurs. Here the science of sociobiology can help us in seeing that people really do get along and assimilate best locally, and with their own kind.