Equity all too easily gets pushed under the guise of equality:
Forty-seven House Republicans voted with Democrats to codify same-sex marriage into federal law, reflecting a majority of Republican voters who now support gay unions.
www.nbcnews.com
Of course it does when you even have politicians who don't understand the difference particularly well. 60's really broke the western socio-political system, with the successful pushing of some reasonable changes, but to large degree for wrong reasons, allowing those wrong reasons to sneak their way into acceptance and be used as support for further, no longer reasonable changes.
Also, equality of citizens before the law is an ideal that has never been achieved. I'd rather have a monarch that is immune to law than live in a lie.
Then you get a monarch that is immune to law and a whole network of monarch's well connected pals and their relatives that are also immune to law, plus the monarch's bureaucracy that's also immune to law and may or may not extend the immunity to laws for a price...
Asking again, how is that different from modern western country, except the "connected people's club" doesn't need to worry about getting replaced by another party and decimated if they abuse their position too much?
Long story short, that's a non-solution, i do not understand the monarchist's idealistic optimism regarding how well a monarchy would work. FFS, Saudi Arabia exists, it is a monarchy, but it's not a well functioning country despite having shitloads of easy money.
True, but it is precisely that idea of "human rights" that is a problem - for precisely that reason. If human rights are not God given but man-assigned, they can mean anything at all - which means that Left has a very wide area to play.
And the Right has been comprehensively failing to exploit the playing field in this area, if it is possible to exploit at all.
The left, or anyone else. They are originally intended as more of a minimum of law for non-barbaric states, the people who try to expand it into an override for democracy and national-self interest in controversial matters just need to be told off in no uncertain terms. Somehow places like Japan and Israel can live with more... sane practice of human rights without even getting cancelled by western institutions, all thanks to their internal status quo keeping the leftists away from levers of power. If Japan and Taiwan had western style left with western level of influence, then they would suddenly have a "boat people crisis" no smaller than that of Europe or Australia.
It's clearly the left's deep influence that's the main problem here, and also part of the establishment right's paralysis from taking any decisive counter-attacks against such sneaky moves. Without dealing with that, it's just a matter of tactical reorganization for these bastards to sneak in the same policy by another route.
There is everything wrong with focusing on rationalism to the exclusion of everything else.
To put it simply: reason can answer the question how, but not the question why. To have a life worth living, you need to have emotional charge. That is why romanticism and similar ideas - such as nationalism etc. - are so important, and why the Left is so keen in attacking them.
And another point is that these ideas, like nationalism, equality under the law, human rights, and many others, are not something that absolutely, positively must be perfectly applied. They cannot be and shouldn't be, because the core role of any good government is to weight these values against each other and balance them wherever they collide, and any government that will put one such idea as an absolute idea above all others that can be used as a magic word to do anything, will probably end up with increasingly extreme and unreasonable governance. Put in that term, a lot of the right's complaints are basically unbalanced leadership, with human rights and equality being expansive and pushing over the rightful place of national self interest, freedom of speech, economic freedom and so on, even "will of the people" itself despite its status in democracy.
