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Keith

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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

what?!?

November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM

terazii.bsky.social

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

November 16, 2024 at 2:02 AM

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Guido Kühn

@guido-kuehn.bsky.social

Deutschland will devote, dankbare Migranten, die Ihren Platz unten in der Gesellschaft unsichtbar ausfüllen und einfach die Jobs erledigen, die wir nicht machen wollen o. können. Integration wird dabei implizit bestraft, weil man dann weiß, wo man sie zur Abschiebung abholen kann.

Illustration: Zwei Polizisten an einer Computermonitorwand mit Listen, einer zeigt auf einen Bildschirm und sagt: Wir sollen mehr unerwünschte Migranten abschieben. Gib mir mal die Adressen derer, die wie nicht erst suchen müssen: also integrierte in Ausbildung mit guten Sprachkenntnissen oder festen Jobs

December 23, 2023 at 9:25 AM

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Der Postillon 📯

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AfD klagt an: Schoko-Weihnachtsmänner mit dunkler Hautfarbe aufgetaucht
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AfD klagt an: Schoko-Weihnachtsmänner mit dunkler Hautfarbe aufgetaucht

Der Krieg gegen das traditionelle Weihnachtsfest wird offenbar immer radikaler: Derzeit herrschen bei der AfD und ihren Anhängern Wut und Empörung, nachdem im Internet Fotos von Schokoladen-Weihnach...

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December 20, 2023 at 6:47 PM

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Guido Kühn

@guido-kuehn.bsky.social

Abseits vom Oppositionsfuror ist die Ampel übrigens besser als ihr Ruf. Gemessen an den bislang eingehaltenen und umgesetzten Wahlversprechen sogar trotz multipler globaler Krisen besser als viele Vorgängerregierungen in besseren Tagen. Muss man auch mal sagen, auch wenn vieles besser sein könnte.