from the 80s to the 00s was basically a combination of: Free market economics with favoritism for large corporations and tax cuts
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for the rich, including free international trade and more immigration Religious conservatism: anti-abortion, prayer in school, govt funding
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for faith-based charities, opposition to some of the left's social liberalism eg gay marriage, etc. Support for expanding military &foreign
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military intervention, ideas about spreading American democracy to everyone: neocons Aside from some mild libertarian elements,
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there's not much of a secular intellectual basis here. Most disastrously, the right got labeled (mostly correctly at the time) as the
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anti-science side due to the religious right influence. The right couldn't oppose the left on Darwinian grounds when it was simultaneously
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questioning the teaching of evolution in schools. Additionally, all opposition to the left's antidiscrimination agenda was dropped.
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Meanwhile the left was cooking up and perfecting Cultural Marxism as the weapon of choice against the right. The right would have a hard
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time arguing against the concept of white privilege without resorting to genetic differences. Of course the answer to this is not to try to
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The answer is to attack the incorrect leftist assumptions about equality directly.
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I really want to know if
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It's Conservatism as described by Moldbug. A Conservatism that is destined to always lose.
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Right, Lycurgus has same first-cut attack at this question as what I would want.
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The Cathedral is a distribution of policy preferences over many different issues, generated by 2 things
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(1) mind-numbing core principles and (2) a distribution of empirical beliefs, personality types, etc
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For most of last 50 yrs "conservative" intellectuals have had the same ideology as "left" intellectuals
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They're just at a tail end of the distribution where they only want "progress" on relatively few issues
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Layered over that you had party dynamics, and dynamics can sometimes be realist even when ppl are fools
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But it was basically "baptist-bootlegger as governing ideology"... find ideas like open borders where--
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