Repost: Why Conservatism Is Barbarism (Law of the Jungle, Social Darwinism, Survival of the Fittest)

This article is one of many that got almost no readers when I first posted it at the beginning of my Substack sojourn, but now that I have many more readers, it’s time for a repost so new people can read it.

Not only that but conservatism and conservatives will never go away. It and they will always be with us. My brother told me that and that's one of the smartest things he ever said to me. I think we Lefties have to reckon ourselves to that.

First of all, conservatism is always and only rule by aristocracy or rule by the rich. It used to mean "the divine right of kings. Read Leviathan for more on that. Locke was one of the first people to call bullshit on that obviously ridiculous notion.

After royalty vanished, conservatives simply substituted money, power and stuff for the aristocracy, so conservatism in our modern age is never anything but the rule of the rich over everyone who's not rich (although the upper middle class does benefit).

It's always the rule of the top 20% over the bot…