Where did conservatism go wrong?

Before the split of conservatism in the 1980s when “First Things” defamed “Chronicles” magazine as being xenophobic, way back around the 1950's, at the beginning of the modern conservative movement, the foundation of real conservatism was purged from "conservatism" by people like William Buckley. That is, the largely biological origin of much of human social behavior, from which real conservatism rises, was defined as politically incorrect, bigoted, and even evil. Modern conservatism began to die even as it was beginning.

The consequences of drumming the modern biological aspects of social behavior out of the conservative movement has been very damaging and has given conservatism a bias against our deep history, and against science, which has kept many good minds away from the conservative movement; this could be the one thing that eventually dooms the conservative movement in the West.

But there is a universal conservatism which is the impulse or yearning among all people to conserve their culture, history and ethnic group or race. At the root of universal conservatism, or evolutionary conservatism as I call it, is the activation to conserve the gene pool of kin and ethnic group and the cultures they develop. Even "order," which is so important to Burke and Kirk, is put in place because orderly societies are more successful in survival and reproduction than disorderly societies.

Human nature evolved to prefer kin and ethnic group because those traits were more successful in survival and reproduction for individuals and groups. Even altruism, being for others, was created as the preference for kin and ethnic group; altruism weakens as we move out toward universalism, which is the main reason why communism and globalism don't work well and tend to use force to impose unnatural universal altruism.

Universal conservatism or deep-conservatism or evolutionary conservatism instinctively and reasonably calls for ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. That is where the impulses and yearnings of human nature are most naturally directed---it could be accomplished in an orderly and conservative way. In the U.S. with the growing variety of competing ethnic groups, each with different genetic pools and different agendas, we could, with our Constitutional separation of powers and states, legally and gradually develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected by federalism. That would affirm a true universal conservatism or evolutionary conservatism in harmony with what human nature actually is.