>>714445763>because they're fundamentally Liberals LARPing as Conservatives.I wouldn't even call it larping - they are Liberals.
I feel like I should expand that a little.
The underlying problem is Liberalism.
To summarize it as briefly as I can, Liberalism bases itself on a series of incorrect conceptions of the world (ie state of nature, blank slate theory, humans as rational animals). Moreover, Liberalism is a doctrine that has been abstracted away from its historical context (English political tradition and Christianity), meaning that many of its principles and ideas have lost the thing which informed and grounded them in the first place.
As a result of all this, Liberalism opens itself up to being defeated on its own terms, which, in turn, allows it to be both directly and indirectly subverted by more extreme elements (such as socialism). Even if these subversive elements weren't present, Liberalism would likely still spiral down a totalitarian path as it seeks to impose itself upon reality.
Much of what you see in the West today is the result of Liberalism, an abstracted ideology, being moved towards its logical conclusion. People are turned into is atomized, fungible, economic units, mandated into equality through regulated outcomes by a centralized bureaucratic government that thinks itself a god.
>China is giga-fuckedFor the exact same reasons - with the added kicker of the one child policy royaly fucking them over on top over everything else.
TLDR: liberalism devolves into an increasingly totalitarian mess centred around atheistic materialism that is incapable of reproducing itself.