Friday, February 26, 2016
Will realist conservatives accept the next stage of realism as pointing toward ethnopluralism?
When the cold war ended, realist
paleoconservatives managed to be flexible in foreign policy seeing
that with the communists threat gone America needed to come home. But
neoconservatives were not as flexible and wanted to stay abroad
fighting monsters and making the world safe for American globalism.
There was also the less mentioned dual loyalty of many leading
neoconservatives (U.S./Israel) which kept them meddling in the middle
east.
My question is this: will realist
conservatives accept the next stage of realism as pointing toward
ethnopluralism? Will conservatives be flexible enough to accept a
realist domestic policy which calls for the constitutional principle
of the separation of powers and states being applied to
ethnopluralism? The almost intractability of real human nature, with
its strong preference for kin and group-selection, suggests the
realism of ethnopluralism, that is, regions and states set aside for
ethnic cultures, and protected by federalism. Ethnopluralism
accommodated by the Constitutional principal of the separation of
powers and states appears to be the best way to balance distinctively
different (and growing) competing ethnic groups in the U.S (and
elsewhere for that matter).
Ethnopluralism may seem to be too much
of a change from what we have now, which goes against the realist
philosophy, but it can be recalled that another element of realism is
to be flexible and change when facts change. Since the time of Darwin
the evolutionary sciences have been refining definitions of human
nature and it is surprisingly to many conservatives that sociobiology
affirms most of the conservative values in being 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.
I suppose it is mainly the conservative
reluctance to accept the natural dynamic of evolution, which they
wrongly think is contrary to Christian values, that holds them back
from seeing the deep realism of ethnopluralism. One hopes they will
not follow the neoconservative example of being unwilling to accept
the real world.
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