Are conservatives the new utopians?
For decades, communists have been scoffed at for believing in utopias and not being realistic. Are conservatives any better?
We’re all too familiar with the meme that believing in Communism is like believing Santa is real. The workers own te means of production, there will be no more ric and poor and everybody will leave in peace and harmony. All ills will be resolved and everyone will be happy.
But I would like to look at those who, till this day still proudly call themselves conservative. Figures like Charlie Kirk, for example. These are the figures of an ideology that has been failing time and time again over the last several decades.
Conservatism is all about bending over and backwards, giving concession after concession, all for the sake of some “respectability”. This has given the left quite a substantial advantage in both the political as well as the cultural arena.
Looking at the current state of Western nations and the decadence of Western society, one may ask “what’s there to conserve?”
Conservatives believe that you can “own” the leftist wokesters with “facts and logic”. They also believe in supporting the police, the same police that will crackdown on any average Joe or Jane for wrong-think or lack of masking, but will look the other way while children are being groomed and stabbed in the streets of Europe. Conservatives believe that we can vote our way out of this mess. \
Another conservative cliche is the “get woke, go broke” Really? How is that going? Did the mega corporations that push the woke propaganda in the media and the workplace go bankrupt? And even if they find themselves in financial turmoil, there’s always the nanny-state ready to step in with some much needed bailout. After all, those mega-corporations have become “too big to fail”.
It is also the conservatives who think that, as long immigrants come here legally, and they learn the language, and the constitution and adopt our “judeo-christian” morality and embrace the values of classical liberalism, that everything will be OK, and thus, we have nothing to fear about being ethnically replaced in our own lands. So long as they come here legally…
That said, I sometimes ask myself if conservatism is nothing but simple wishful thinking, an espace from reality. It seems to be increasingly detached from reality and more rooted in pure utopian ideals.
What’s your take? Are you a staunch conservative? Do you think conservatism is the way of the future? Will the new generation of conservative thinkers succeed in releasing us from the leftist stranglehold on culture and politics? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Thank you for letting me step into your company, Jean.
It's interesting that we've reached a stage whereby figures such as Johnny Rotten are declaring that the Right represents a form of opposition to the Establishment, but although I wouldn't go so far as to agree with him, I do think authentic revolutionaries must embrace some of the 'conservative' aspects you mention. I always say that those who stand on the side of nature - by which I include our own particular species - are the most authentically conservative of all. And that, of course, is a form of conservatism that is a million miles away from the so-called 'conservative' parties of Europe.