Friday, October 20, 2017
How real reform not radicalism is the preferred way of deep conservatism
The entire establishment, democrat and
republican, are dismayed by President Trump, but if they succeed in
removing him from office they may be a lot more dismayed. Our nation
may fall further into civil disorder because the radical right will
claim that conservative reform will not save America or the West and
radicalism, not reform, is necessary. And that
is dismaying to deep conservatives.
The
fact is Blacks, Whites, Jews, Hispanics, etc. have had problems
getting along together not because they are bigoted or hateful but
because ethnocentrism or group-selection is instinctively and
genetically a deep part of human nature---it was the behavior that
allowed these groups to survive successfully during the time when
human nature was formed, and it is still very much with us today.
Its not a culturally learned trait.
But
no one wants to define human nature accurately in that way and it has
become politically incorrect to do so. That will only strengthen the
radical right and the radical left in response. Deep conservatives
seek to stop denying kin-centered, ethnocentric and group-selecting
real human nature and believe this could lead to real reform, not radicalism or revolution.
For
example, deep conservatism thinks that the existing constitutional
separation of powers and states in the US could be gradually and
legally adapted to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates and regions,
finally in harmony with real, traditional, human nature. Otherwise
the radicals may succeed, at least in their usual short-term way.
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