It’s a privilege to even consider the moral framework in which a country’s government operates. All animal life is more used to brutality and domination over diplomacy. The risk in OP’s arguments - and the modern left generally - is that we expect moral perfection of government. We can see and imagine an idealistic “Star Trek” future, and it makes perfect sense to you and me, but it’s not the current reality. In order to continue progressing, we have to slow down and examine the primal drives of conservatism. These impulses will tear down any and all system if it no longer helps conservative-leaning people feel safe and secure in a changing existence.
It’s a privilege to even consider the moral framework in which a country’s government operates. All animal life is more used to brutality and domination over diplomacy. The risk in OP’s arguments - and the modern left generally - is that we expect moral perfection of government. We can see and imagine an idealistic “Star Trek” future, and it makes perfect sense to you and me, but it’s not the current reality. In order to continue progressing, we have to slow down and examine the primal drives of conservatism. These impulses will tear down any and all system if it no longer helps conservative-leaning people feel safe and secure in a changing existence.
I didn’t think that expecting a nominally democratic government to not support dozens of genocidal dictators was a particularly high bar.