Here is a better attempt to describe what kind of elites “Leftists” or “Rightists” seemingly prefer to see in charge – but again, Confucianism or the Catholic Church don’t seem to have much leftist/liberal drift despite being organized around memetics/scholarship/control of information, and on the other side, some groups from hunter-gatherer tribes to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno"Ukrainian or Spanish anarchists and modern Third World guerrillas combine “leftist” attitudes and egalitarianism with violence and rule by military force.

As Oligopsony pointed out somewhere else around here, a better explanation would be that “leftists” are generally hostile to some types of hierarchies and relations of dominance, but not at all in agreement on how to displace/weaken them.

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Staying out of both WWI and WWII while being squarely in the center of it both times… This is utterly anomalous in world history. Der Fuhrer coveted Switzerland and hated its people desperately but no dice. A lake of glass-smooth calm amid the worst carnage in world history.

And it continues. All of Europe roils in catastrophic economic disaster year after year and in Switzerland, right in the middle of it all…. almost nothing.

What is the secret? Extreme localism. Power is disseminated locally all the way to the most local level, with every household required to have what is basically a machine gun.

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Advantages of localism:
1 – The system is robust, because failure is okay. With massive superstates, failure is a disaster.
2 – Decisions are made by the people they affect and not at 30,000 feet.
3 – There are many solutions going on simultaneously. Some will invariably be effective.
4 – If you don’t like the place, no biggie. Just move to a different one, since there are many to choose from.
5 – Places can learn from each other. If one place has a better policy that another place, it’s okay, because people are voting with their feet and the one with the worse policy will become uncompetitive.

Localism is not pie in the sky. It is the heart of why capitalism works and why Communism does not. It is why America worked so well for most of its history. Localism is also the only thing that will save us. Marriage is not dead because high status and successful people recognize its value. Crime is not out of control because local jurisdictions everywhere looked into the abyss in recent decades.

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Oppressive leftism – which is what we have now – makes politics compulsory.

Oppressive rightism – which english speakers have not had for several centuries – makes politics forbidden.

Thus leftism tends ever to lunatic extremism. Rightism does not. Given the number people killed by politics in the twentieth century, oppressive rightism has a plausible case.

In the late nineteenth century, people were getting nervous about expressing politically incorrect views, a nervousness I never saw in older books except during the reign of James the second. They have been getting steadily more nervous – thus we have ever increasing levels of left wing repression, which cause ever more leftwards movement at an ever increasing rate.

When Marie Curie got not one but two Nobels for work that was unremarkable when men did similar or considerably more important work, the world was already mandatory raving moonbat left, and has moved ever leftwards since then at an ever increasing rate.

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Bit of a fatal flaw, there.

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Kind of a major barrier to continental power in the southern US. Unless they recruited black Africans as soldiers or something.

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