Sunday, April 19, 2015

The political coalition of the future


The left and right can get together against marauding globalism, because the left hates big-corporation global capitalism, and the right hates border-marauding, sovereign-killing, so-called free-market capitalism. But I would like to see it go even deeper than this natural populism. I would like to see ethnopluralism affirmed by both the left and the right: ethnopluralism could gain from the division between the failing parties---although they have become more alike in their political correctness.
Unlike multiculturalism which causes the loss of identity by attempting to affirm everything and everyone equally, ethnopluralism affirms ethnic groups and cultures living mainly in their own regions and states, which could even be accommodated by the separation of powers and states of the original U.S. Constitution. This could appeal to the left in that it supports not one but all ethnic cultures, and to the right because it protects the traditional distinctness of existing groups. Libertarians will like the devolution of Big Government back to the regions and states.

But the great natural advantage of ethnopluralism is that it affirms real human nature, which has remained kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. The refusal to acknowledge territorial ethnic differences always leads to social disruption and even to civil war.

Even democracy or a Republican form of government can fit better with ethnopluralism. Any marauding minority will have more difficulty subjecting society to their conditions because with ethnopluralism it is the group, the majority, which sets the patterns in the states and regions---protected by an overall light federalism.

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