Multiculturalism Enables Totalitarianism ｜ 1⧸9⧸25
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Summary
Conservatives and Libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority, but rarely consider the factors that actually drive the growth of government. For most champions of small government, institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success, but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make the expansion of government inevitable.
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Conservatives and Libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority,
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but rarely consider the factors that actually drive the growth of government.
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institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success,
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but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make the expansion of the state inevitable.
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While there are different views among Libertarians,
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many believe that borders are themselves an artificial imposition of the state and that individuals should be allowed to move freely at will.
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The belief that the government shouldn't favor any particular culture or people leads to multiculturalism and,
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when the founding fathers of the United States demanded liberty in their break from Great Britain,
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they didn't view their declaration as an abolition of all governance or the freedom of the individual to do whatever they wanted.
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The founders realized that government was indeed necessary,
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but it could be limited in scope if the people shared a moral vision and maintained personal virtue.
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and strict expectations when it came to public conduct.
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but governance in accordance with the shared values and beliefs of the people.
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The men responsible for creating the government of the United States knew that it would only work for a moral and religious people
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The government that governs best can govern least when the people are virtuous
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and pursue the common good without state coercion.
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Every man who seeks the good does so by pursuing that which feels natural in the context of his culture and religion.
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Laws and restrictions that require the individual to do that which already feels natural and in accordance with their beliefs
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The shared communal expectation is enough to keep things in check.
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liberty and a shared moral vision are inextricably tied together.
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When the social forces of religion and culture are strong,
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order can be maintained with little interference by the state.
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Robust families and communities that share a moral foundation
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create structures that mediate conflict and discourage antisocial behavior
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before it rises to a level that requires government action.
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the state must step in to prevent a breakdown in order.
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This is why a government which does not prefer a particular culture and its virtues
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a designer dress from Winners,
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Like that woman over there with the Italian leather handbag.
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Multiculturalism by its very nature implies the fracturing of a shared moral vision.
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informing us from our earliest days about how to understand the world and our place in it.
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Culture and religion forge our understanding of right and wrong,
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creating the social customs we take to be natural,
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and helping us to understand what the good life looks like,
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There may be some degree of overlap from one culture to the next,
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but this minimal shared morality is simply not enough to create harmony.
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multiple conflicting visions of the good and how that good should be pursued.
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When the people shared a strong majority culture and moral vision,
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The state could confine itself to making only laws that were in accordance with that culture
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a government which takes steps to favor and protect that culture may be labeled as illiberal,
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but it is far more likely to allow its citizens to live in accordance with their own conscience.
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the country is allowed to become multicultural,
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and the state wishes to facilitate that transformation,
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organic forms of dispute resolution and communal expectations can't be relied upon to maintain order.
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Individuals have very different expectations for public conduct,
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and the form of the good which should be collectively pursued.
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but fundamental due to the axiomatic assumptions baked into their competing cultures.
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there is no organic communal structure which can mediate these conflicts,
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the government must claim the role of neutral arbiter between communities with different moral visions.
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can never remain morally neutral because moral neutrality doesn't exist,
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and so every institution becomes a cultural battleground.
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Every clash of culture creates a new opportunity for the state to expand into different arenas of public life
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and impose its ideology on the fractured and atomized masses.
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In every instance where the public can't agree and resolve its own disputes,
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the government expands to take on those responsibilities and generate additional authority.
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It doesn't matter if an arbitrary law is issued by a despotic monarch or a technocracy or a democracy.
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In a multicultural society where no unified tradition exists,
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all laws feel like arbitrary and artificial impositions by a state which has no connection to any particular people or culture.
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While it may feel counterintuitive to modern proponents of small government,
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vigorous state action in favor of defending a unified culture is far more likely to protect liberty than policies like open borders and neutral institutions.
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It's only through a unified moral vision founded on our nation's historic belief in the truth of Christ
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that we can prevent the expansion of tyranny and pursue the liberty that our forefathers envisioned.
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"...unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.
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Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain."
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