I have struggled to put a label to my political views. Tradional Conservative, Old Right Monarchist, Counter Enlightenment Monarchist…I am all of the above and something more.
So here goes.
- I believe that a monarchist political system provides the best opportunity for a stable government.
- Loyalty to one’s nation and the institutions of that nation (i.e. Monarch, Church, Armed Forces) is of paramount importance.
- Each person, from natural conception to natural death, is a Creation of God and is a subject of the Crown, bound to the Monarch and protected under the Law.
- The family unit is of paramount importance to the existence of society. Marriage (between one man and one woman) is protected by the Crown and the other institutions of the State.
- Respect towards the past and communal institutions is integral to preserving society. Care must be taken to preserve that which is beneficial from the past and to build on it, creating a lasting legacy for future generations.
- Equality of all Crown subjects is acknowledged before the law courts and before God Almighty.
- Each individual is a product of society and can not exist in a vacuum. As a result, moral and social norms are not the product of the individual, but are defined by the greater society, in accordance with the Will of the Monarch and God.
- The freedom of the individual is guaranteed. This is not the freedom of classical liberalism, but freedom which is a product of Man’s experience in society, with assistance of the State and other communal institutions.
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I think your 8th point is somewhat contradictory. Also I don’t know what to classify this political view as. Almost an Imperialistic Conservatorial Monarchy. *confusion*
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=2652
“[Traditional Conservatives] argue strongly against the literally endless freedom of liberalism, which of its nature requires perpetual mobility, perpetual invention and re-invention, in order to secure the individuality of the individual…They emphasize instead a physical stability — that of towns, homesteads, and households — which makes it possible for communal ties to build at their inevitable slow rate. They defend self-government as the only kind of freedom fit for man: that is, not autonomy in the sense of freedom from outside intervention, but in the sense of self-mastery, which is a necessary prerequisite for the person to seek the Good.”