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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