Before running for political office politicians should be asked to define human nature

 Before running for political office politicians should be asked to define human nature. Even though, being politicians, they would probably give demagogic answers that appeal to popular desires the vital question would at least be put on the table.

We have choices within determined paths, like a boulder rolling down a mountain, as E.O. Wilson once put it. The invention of free will probably came about to advocate cultural behavior that went against real human nature, consciously or unconsciously.

Modern liberalism is about 100 percent on the 30% side of nurture and conservatism is more or less on the 70% nature side. Liberalism wants the government to move toward socialism/communism, which ends up taking away human freedom, while conservatism wants unchecked individual freedom, especially for capitalism (libertarianism), which tends to create societies ruled or controlled by people of great wealth that end up taking away human freedom.

If we look a little deeper at what that 70% nature side is telling us about human nature, the science of sociobiology and common sense show us that human nature has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, territorial, and even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Real human nature suggests that conservative ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are the best political configuration for humans beings to live within. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could even be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. 

A series of Supreme Court decisions now allow almost any perversion of human nature, people are legally “free” to chose whatever sexuality, whatever odd version of marriage, whatever political structure that fits their short-term fancy. The modern liberal principle of tolerance for perversions of real human nature of every kind has all but destroyed Western civilization. 

No such freedom exists within a largely determined human nature. Real human nature as a grounding to harmonize human actions needs to be affirmed if the West is to survive.