Liberalism vs Conservatism & Why Conservatives (Will) Always Win

On the species level, humans differ from others (also) bc we construct abstract rules, willingly or unwillingly, to govern ourselves. At the moment, we are experiencing the rejection of the rules of liberalism and embrace of the rules of conservatism: all part of a collapse of industrial capitalist imperialism, a lived-narrative that is/was designed to make the earth serve the desires of the devotees of a religio-militarist construct called "finance".

This is the first post of several that examine this predicament.

Pure definitions:

Conservatism presumes existence is a state of war.

Liberalism presumes existence is a state of war that can be transformed into a state of peace.

Progress is a liberal concept; it is the transformation of a state of war into a state of peace.

Conservatism allows no progress; the state of war is constant.

Both Liberalism and Conservatism require belief. For liberals, in human goodness. For conservatives, in weaponry.

War and progress are opposing states.

Religious context:

Progress assumes “advances in knowledge”; the religion of liberalism imagines a spirituality of advance, expansion. The creation of cosmos is perpetual/not fixed and deity always being redefined, transcended, or evolved beyond.

The religion of conservatism is changeless, eternal, monological; opposing progress, it imagines a spirituality of eternally ordered hierarchies. Creation happened, then stopped and now all is fixed; and deity is immutable. Unless serving to prove this conservative pov, "advances in knowledge" are ignored, abhorred, punished, deleted: neolithic texts contain eternal truths that can never be disproven by modern texts.

Political context:

Liberalism presumes equality is a fixed state, a natural law, the proper basis of law and governance. 

Conservatism presumes inequality is a fixed state, a natural law, the proper basis of law and governance. 

Historical context:

Conservatism appears when history begins, with the first written texts. Gilgamesh, MahaBharata, Homeric Epics, Torah etc.

Liberalism appears with the Declaration of Independence.

The library of conservatism is vast, of liberalism much smaller.

Since 1776, the history of the USA has been a battle of narratives—which one molds and moves the thoughts and behaviors of its inhabitants: liberalism or conservatism?

Why conservatives win:

Identifying reality as a state of war requires little effort bc evidence of it is ample. Conservatism can never be wrong about this.

Claiming that a state of peace is possible, liberalism has to prove it. Any return to war is blamed upon liberals, bc only they believed it was possible.

Proving peace can exist as a constant state is impossible, and that’s why conservatives win. 

Though they are only partially correct, conservatives can prove that liberals are usually wrong—and when finance controls government and media, that is enough to control the narrative that molds and moves the thoughts and behaviors of mass populations.

Conservatives will always win; but their victory is suicidal because the earth does not support a species that destroys its own habitat—which is exactly what finance does (calling it "progress,""profit" and/or "wealth").