I have often noted that there can be no political Right that is genuinely distinct from the Left; unless it is rooted in religion.
In other words, what people call the Right (including the "far Right" - whatever that may be) are from a Christian perspective and at root, just a type of Leftism - that is, they are all this-worldly and aiming at hedonic outcomes (i.e. human psychological gratification).
I believe this is true, and consequential; but whereas 15 years ago I saw religion in terms of a church, now I regard it as unavoidably personal: Romantic Christianity.
So how then does religion work as an alternative to the pervasive Leftism?
The answer is that the real alternative to Leftism is much, much more radical than anything ever dreamed of by any kind of The Right.
The Right tries to keep what it likes from our Leftist Western civilization, and eradicate what it does not like; but Romantic Christianity recognizes that this process must cut very deeply indeed to eradicate the roots of evil - so deep, indeed, that our kind of civilization seems inconceivable.
What would happen instead is also inconceivable in detail and at large - except that it would be more like a family than a state.
However unsatisfactory this individualist/ romantic world view may seem to be, especially to those whose ideology continues to be socio-political and group-ist in nature - it does seem to be the only positive (Christian) possibility; given the way that human consciousness has developed.
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