If conservatives persist in fantasizing that we can return to the lost Republic with high Hadrian Walls of trade barriers protecting our overpaid union-worker monopolies, they will forfeit to Leftists the power to shape the emerging world government. Even a great and good Emperor, Ronald Reagan, strengthened the grip of the empire's wealth and weapons, and both major political parties in America support its expansion. Selfishness and Upheaval. Capitalism is the only social system compatible with individual liberty. Only the degree of slavery is in question.
Individuals are self-sustaining living biological units with natural integrity.
A social order created out of dynamic freedom will appear more chaotic, but in fact be more stable, than an imposed unnatural order. The honesty of reactionary conservatives in this matter is honorable. They pride themselves on being Luddites out to smash the machinery of modernity that threatens their medieval values. Amorality and Materialism. Amorality is capitalism's greatest virtue.