As a digression, I find that political progressivism and consequentialist ethics are very strongly linked (liberal technocrats) in U.S. society. Consequentialist ethics is fatally flawed. We simply cannot know the full extent of the consequences of our actions. Life isn't a model
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The fatal flaw in political conservatism is that it hesitates to act where action is needed. Related problem is hypocrisy. I mean that in the traditional sense of the word "insufficiently self-critical" not in the post-modern ironic sense of the word.
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Conservative worldviews are often hypocritical. Often making light of the severity of real problems or (worse) defending systems of iniquity merely because they are stable.
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There's a problem today though in that conservatism and radical right-wing revanchism are frequently conflated, and of course the right-wing ideologues in our government and media have done little to fight against this trend. No wonder people are shouting "NAZI NAZI" so freely.
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There are radical left-wing revanchists too. They're actually even more terrifying to me because the right wingers won't pretend to be anything but tribally motivated, whereas the extreme leftists pretend they have some beautiful vision for the future. Jackbooted thugs.
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Reconciling my leftist background and my leftist ideals with my conservative disposition and my acquired wisdom has been a bit of a personal project. It's not easy, let me tell you.
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I'm not a policy think-tanker or an influential blogger. My intellectual output on this stuff is completely ignored by everyone but myself and the handful of people who talk about it with me. Instead, I focus my energy on learning how to orient myself based on what's in my heart.
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For example: "how should I vote?" "who should I donate money to?" "who should I be reading?" "which communities should I attempt to engage with?" "how should I handle interpersonal interactions with people who disagree with me?" etc.
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A lot of this is just filling in the details of the usual path work stuff. Right View. Right Speech. Right action. (contemplated using correct instead of right due to context, but the traditional translation is fine)
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The polarization in society has become a major obstacle to effective communication about topics that deserve a language with sufficient nuance to reflect the underlying reality. I find it very hard to know how to discuss my politics with people. I have no label and no tribe.
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I feel like I've personally innovated quite a bit, finding a middle path between idealist progressivism and realist conservatism. It works for me, even though it's very hard to communicate with people stuck in mainstream discourse boundaries.
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I'm not a centrist though. I'm a conservative progressive. That's not a contradiction.
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