True Conservatism

By Leo Gura - March 25, 2026

I’m actually quite conservative in my attitude towards life. I always have been and it’s a major factor in my success and maturity. Being conservative is good, minus all the stupid shit. What I hate about conservatives is that they mix so much stupidity into conservative values. I can’t call myself a conservative because conservatives are so ignorant and corrupt, but I actually am conservative.

Here are the good and bad parts of conservatism.

The good:

  • Hard work. Work before play. Honest labor. Not slacking off.
  • Discipline
  • Epistemic and intellectual rigor. Not fantasies and wishful thinking
  • Training, mastery, excellence
  • A hierarchy based on true merit, experience, excellence, and mastery
  • Extreme responsibility-taking, not playing victim, not making excuses
  • Self-reliance, independence, solving your own problems. Not expecting handouts or freebies. Bootstrapping yourself
  • Not making yourself a burden on others. Not leeching off others
  • Getting what you deserve. Getting what you worked for. No handouts.
  • Honesty
  • Integrity, not cheating
  • Loyalty to Truth, God, Good
  • Being good, being kind, being respectful
  • Belief that truth exists
  • Serious attitude towards life and survival
  • Pragmatism, hyper realistic and pessimistic view of human nature. No utopian communist fantasies.
  • Rejection of decadence and frivolity. Rejection of luxury. Living a spartan lifestyle.
  • Rejection of alcohol, drugs, casual sex, partying, gambling, prostitution, sex work
  • Celibacy
  • Being conservative with finances. Not spending money you don’t have. Not wasting money on stupid things.
  • Making wise long-term investments
  • Balanced budgets
  • Not printing money. Gold standard. Not going into debt.
  • Preparing yourself for winter
  • Humility, modesty. A modest lifestyle.
  • Dressing conservatively. Dressing modestly. Dressing sharp and clean.
  • Hardcore spiritual practice
  • Not living materialistically, hedonisticly. Rejection of materialistic lifestyles. Not living for pleasure or fun.
  • Living for God, not for money or pleasure
  • Living a principled life. Doing the right thing. Doing what needs to be done.
  • Sustainable strategies and lifestyle
  • Justice, fairness, true law and order, where the legal system is unbiased and justice is blind and fair
  • Strict and clear laws, zero tolerance for corruption
  • Commitment to family if you choose to start one
  • Being hyper vigilant and careful in life overall, not taking stupid risks, not being too adventurous
  • Careful planning vs spontaneous action
  • Charity; helping the poor, the sick, the disabled
  • Non-interventionism: not getting involved in other nations’ business. Non-imperialism. The Prime Directive.
  • Order, cleanliness
  • Masculine & feminine gender roles. Not trying to equalize men and women.
  • People are biologically profoundly unequal. Genetics matter.
  • Treating life very seriously. Respecting the severity of life.
  • Being grateful for what we have, even if it’s far from perfect

The bad:

  • The sheer ignorance and anti-intellectualism
  • The historical ignorance and revisionism
  • The lack of education, twisted and biased forms of education
  • Religion, religious dogma and indoctrination of children
  • Fake religion, fake spirituality, fake piety and morality
  • The corruption and bastardization of spirituality. Turning spirituality into a vehicle for power and survival
  • The insane closedmindedness
  • Inability to consider alternative points of view and paradigms
  • Bigotry, racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia
  • Nationalism and performative patriotism
  • Ethnocentrism, favoring your ethnicity over all others
  • Anti-multi-culturalism
  • Anti-globalism
  • Anti-environmentalism, pollution, raping the Earth, opposing green energy
  • Authoritarianism, Fascism, anti-democratic tendencies
  • Censorship and suppression of free speech
  • Militarism, starting wars, violent attitude, violent rhetoric, war profiteering, preemptive wars
  • Inflated military budgets
  • Financial hypocrisy
  • Anti-regulation, unwillingness to regulate capitalism, monopolies
  • Anti-taxation
  • Anti-government
  • Anti-feminism, patriarchy, controlling women
  • Anti-reproductive rights
  • Anti-science, anti-evolution, anti-vax
  • Anti-birth control
  • Pro torture, revenge, cruel punishment, inhumane prisons
  • Voter suppression, gerrymandering
  • Blaming and demonizing liberals & progressives
  • Culture wars
  • Suppression of minority rights by the majority
  • Drug criminalization, drug demonization, war on drugs
  • Demonization and rejection of psychedelics
  • Zionism
  • Islamophobia
  • Oligarchy, royalty, aristocracy, elitism, caste systems, billionaires
  • Abuse of women and children
  • Cruelty to animals. Abusing animals. Treating animals as non-sentient entities.
  • Demonization of groups of people, minorities, alternative perspectives
  • Demonization of socialism
  • Demonization of post-modernism
  • Demonization and repression of sexuality, prudishness, slut-shaming women
  • Anti-sex education
  • Demonization and scapegoating of immigrants
  • Viewing certain groups of people as sub-human
  • Racial superiority
  • Tribalism
  • Genocide
  • Segregating people by race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality
  • Moralizing and crusading
  • Forcing views on others, telling others what to believe
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Corporatism, giving corporations way too much freedom and power
  • Libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, “free markets”
  • The insane conformity and group-think, the inability to question human social constructs
  • Mindless defending of outdated and dysfunctional traditions
  • Insane lack of empathy
  • Insane bias, blindly defending one’s culture. Favoring your culture over all others.
  • Cultural chauvinism
  • American exceptionalism, Western exceptionalism, unipolar world
  • Lack of construct-awareness
  • Demonization of relativism
  • Toxic masculinity and Fascist machismo
  • Financial gimmickry and scams
  • Hyper capitalism. Exploit and scam whoever you can. Grifting culture.
  • The insane hypocrisy and double-standards

Conservatism has become so corrupt that it’s shameful to even call oneself a conservative these days. Conservatives have no understanding what true conservatism is about. True conservatism is being conservative about Truth. It’s epistemic responsibility.

I stand for all the good parts of conservatism and I denounce all the bad. All the bad is just corruption. I am truly conservative, which is why I hate conservatives. Conservatives aren’t conservative, they are conformist buffoons.

I am going to formulate an intelligent version of true conservatism, which no conservative is able to do because they are too unconscious, too conformist, too ignorant, and too corrupt. True conservatism is only possible after direct consciousness of God/Truth/Love/Good. There is not a single public conservative who understands what God is.

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