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Let me explain this in the rationalistic manner you expect. Systems of governance and ideologies are not alternatives to each other. A functional society needs one of each. Like you were taught in medieval history, there was the reign of men (monarchy) and a reign of souls (the church). Some...

I meant the idea of holding a whole group responsible for actions of some of its members in general, which may seem like something unusual for a modern western liberal, but for other, especially primitive, tribal civilizations, its a perfectly common, normal and mundane one. For example...

Being such a secularist and big fan of science you really should reexamine that statement, you might find the idea of collective guilt being much older and more common than that. Even if you are right that this specific use case was probably pillaged by the marxists from the most common and...

Yes, a lot of the "trad cons" have missed out on the need to effectively spread their ideas in institutions and fight the culture war "on the ground" in the process. Trying does not inherently mean their suggestions are good. If their ideas for fighting progressives were a proverbial golden...

Right\left dualism is a massive political simplification that means completely different things depending on time and place. You can easily separate even just western modern political movements by 3 very significant preferences: 1.High/low economic interventionism and regulation 2.High/low...