Conservatives Want Power Inequality

By Leo Gura - June 2, 2025

The reason Nazis hate and seek to end democracy is because they do not want to share power with minorities, who they view as naturally and inherently inferior to themselves. This is a quintessentially conservative position. This is a critical insight for understanding the conservative mind. Nazis believe that the strong must rule the weak, otherwise it’s a violation of nature and God. Conservatism is about preserving and restoring traditional hierarchies of power. Liberalism is about redistributing power equally between the weak and strong, which requires taking power away from the dominant and corrupt majorities and giving it to weak minorities. Conservatives abhor the very idea that weaker people and groups should be given equal power at the expense of the naturally stronger. Do not assume that everyone wants democracy — those who benefit from inequality hate equality.

This is why conservatives hate the idea that women should have equal power to men, that browns should have equal power to whites, that gays should have equal power to straights, that trans should have equal power to cis, that the sick should have equal power to the healthy, that animals should have equal power to humans, that foreigners should have equal power to locals, that workers should have equal power to bosses, that infidels should have equal power to believers, that subjects should have equal power to rulers, that individuals should have equal power to corporations, that the lower class should have equal power to the upper class, that the dumb should have equal power to the smart, that children should have equal power to adults, that the out-group should have equal power to the in-group, that the uncivilized should have equal power to the civilized, that all nations should have equal power in the UN.

Political worldview hinges on this question: How should power be distributed? If you are liberal it is hard to believe that most people in the world believe that power should not be equally distributed and fight like hell to ensure it isn’t. Conservatives are not even conscious they are doing this, to them it just feels like the natural, right thing to defend “tradition”. But tradition always means unequal distribution of power. Notice, no tradition treats people and animals as equals. Why not? Because the further you go back in time, into tradition, the less developed, less conscious, more animal-like humans were. Which means the more they unconsciously dominated and exploited whoever they could: animals, women, children, blacks, gays, minorities, the disabled, the poor, foreigners, Jews, slaves, aboriginals, freaks, gypsies, etc.

Conservatives are so unconscious that they do not understand why they are conservatives: to increase their own survival at the expense of some other group. This is why someone is a Zionist, Nazi, fascist, Taliban, Jihadist, Islamist, Buddhist, Christian, orthodox, Mormon, nationalist, anti-immigrant, racist, KKK, royalist, monarchist, MAGA, totalitarian, strict constitutionalist, corporatist, etc. But all this goes unrecognized.

Very few conservatives wake up in the morning and tell themselves, “Okay, which minority group can I take power away from today? Which minority group can I keep repressed?” But in effect this is what preserving tradition means. Tradition is not some innocent neutral thing, tradition is valuable because survival advantages to the majority group at the expense of some minority group is baked into it. So when a Zionist wakes up every morning he goes to defend Zionism without an ounce of awareness that the benefits of Zionism come at the expense of a minority group like the Palestinians. To the Zionist it just feels like Zionism feels good and natural. But underneath that, the actual survival function of Zionist tradition is that it feeds off some other group. So Zionism is not just an ideological fantasy, it confers survival value by surreptitiously leeching it from a minority group. As Nazism leeched off Jews, Zionists leech off Palestinians. Christians leech off natives in Africa and Latin America. Libertarian capitalist bosses leech off ununionized employees. Sexist men leech off women. Locals leech off immigrant labor. Islamists tax infidels. Etc.

This entire process of “tradition preservation” is unconscious. Making it conscious reveals the corruption baked into the tradition. But if you are invested in the tradition, you need to remain blind to its corruption. Therefore, conservatism boils down to a game of avoiding seeing and acknowledging the corruption and power imbalance of whatever favorite tradition the conservative is trying to defend. So, denial of reality is baked right into every form of conservatism. That’s the unseen function of conservatism. The conservative is not conscious enough of his own survival to understand that he is doing this, and any time you try to point it out to him he gets threatened, hurt, angry, and goes into denial mode, otherwise he would have the consciousness see his own corruption and evil, which is the last thing he wants to admit to himself because he’s always assumed that his tradition is what makes him good. He’s in too deep. It’s like getting someone in the mob to see how corrupt and unfair the mob is.

What I’m saying is that all human tradition is laced with evil and because this evil benefits the survival of the tradition’s adherents beyond their awareness, they must deny it or surrender its survival benefits. This doesn’t just apply to political parties, it applies to every tradition. Even, science & academia!

Do you see how sneaky and clever survival and politics is?

Politics is so clever that no one understands how clever it is. Because to understand its cleverness is to lose the survival advantage that unconsciousness gains you. What I’m saying is that a core function of tradition is to make you so unconscious that you benefit from exploiting others while being blind to your exploits. The unconsciousness isn’t a bug, it’s a feature! The more unconscious you are the more of a dick you can be to others. This is true even in intimate relationships. The function of ideology is that it allows you to benefit from being a dick while honestly thinking you’re not a dick by keeping yourself blind. Because if you ever saw how much of a dick you are, you would be so horrified that you’d stop it. This is the ultimate reason why conservatives are so touchy and defensive. The conservative mind is always under threat of being exposed for defending evil. This is critical to understand whenever you see a conservative arguing. This explains the deep psychology of their behavior that they themselves do not know. Watch Jordan Peterson argue. This is what fuels all of his antics and mental gymnastics. Conservatism is about rationalizing inequality by appeals to tradition because one benefits from it, usually at the expense of some minority group.

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Leftist: Let’s ban eating meat because it’s unfair.

Conservative: No! That will ruin our cherished Thanksgiving Day tradition! Our tradition goes back 200 years! It’s sacred! God says so.

Leftist: But it’s unfair to animals!

Conservative: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…. animals don’t really matter… Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…. Tradition must stay! Stop destroying our culture! I don’t see anything wrong with eating a turkey. Our ancestors have been eating turkey for 200 years, so how could that be wrong? It’s absurd to treat animals well. Bible says animals and women and browns are here to serve white man!

Leftist: And who wrote the Bible? Man. How convenient.

Conservative: BUT IT’S TRADITION! YOU FASCIST! YOU AUTHORITARIAN!!! FREEDOM!!!!!!!

Leftist: Equality feels like oppression when you’ve been benefiting from inequality for centuries.

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This is the depth of insight necessary to truly make sense of politics. That’s how profound this is. This is why I study and teach politics — because its roots go all the way down into spirituality. It’s just that nobody is conscious nor objective enough to see these deep connections.

I’m trying to show you what a serious understanding reality and psychology yields.

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Note: Be careful. I am not saying that perfect equality is possible or even good. Politics requires just the right balance between equality and inequality. Knowing how to strike that balance is what makes politics so hairy and nuanced. Just mindlessly pushing for endless equality is not intelligent politics and it will fail. This is the biggest trap of the left. The left needs to learn why equality cannot be had. Conservatives want and rationalize power inequality. Sometimes this power inequality is warranted, sometimes not. Figuring out which is which is no trivial matter and cannot be done with ideology.

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