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Eliezer Yudkowsky? Really? He's kind of an epic example of 'let's start by asking some very good questions, then go haring off deep into loony toon territory.' Largely because he was blind to his own bias.

If anything, since Torah-derived Jewish culture is directly opposed to progressivism, over-representation demonstrates how easily wealthy elites betray their heritage and/or culture for what is fashionable among the elite.

No, it isn't. If the Republican Party and the Conservative movement were the same thing, we'd have either a lot more conservative policy implementation, or a lot less unfulfilled demand for such. Influence between the base and the politicians goes both ways, but they are not the same thing.

So you claim, but I've seen no evidence of this, not in the US anyways. I understand that the UK has a serious problem with feckless conservatives, but here in the US, I have not seen any such shift. Now, the Republican Party has always been weak to leftist social pressure, but that is not the...

It goes further than that. Most people who aren't Conservatives don't even know what the term actually means to those who apply it to themselves. Relentless propaganda in the media, and weakness on the part of many Republicans, has left almost anyone outside those circles who isn't old enough to...

That depends on how you define 'Empire.' The most accurate term for the USA is 'World Hegemon.' We aren't structured as an empire, and our culture doesn't fit one. If America had been a classical Empire, Iraq and Afghanistan would have both been forced to institute laws guarding religious...