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None of those things are inherently conservative. Nationalism at one point was a historically progressive force, millenarian religion often goes hand in hand with lower class revolts, and human reproduction need not be tied to patriarchy.
No one cares about conservatism. The essence of right wing thought is to preserve and advance the interests of the nation and to uphold natural law. To preserve and prmote the institutions that aid this endeavor: religion, families and the state.
Nationalism was an inevitability due to technology and education. Educated people in an age of firearms could not be persuaded to die or fight for the petty dynastic whims of kings. They could only be persuaded to fight for things they cared about: family, nation and God.
Nationalism organically grew from this. The idea that countries should exist as home for extended families or tribes aka nations. It should not exist as some patchwork of territories that happened to belong to a ruling dynasty.
It was also a matter of security. In an age of industrial war and mass mobilization, petty statelets or dysfunctional polyglot empires were not feasible. You needed to be a coherent and functional state in order to resist industrialized opponents. That meant...
doing away with statelets like Hanover, Saxony and Veince, and make strong coherent states like Germany and Italy. It also meant doing away with dysfunctional multiethnic empires like Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. All three were simply obsolete...
in an age of industrial warfare. They all suffered military defeats in WW1 due to a dysfunctional government and military. And all of them fell into civil war shortly after defeat.
Nationalism OTH, produced strong capable states like Germany, Britain and France.
Even today most of the world's nations are ethnically homogenous. That's just the obvious way to draw a country's borders. With people who are genetically similar and share a common history. You want to minimize friction in you country and nation states are the way to go.
All great empires start as tightly knit nations, bursting onto the scene against decaying polyglot empires. The pure arabs conquered the multiculti byzantines and Persians. The Germans conquered multikulti Rome. The Mongols conquered the Khawarezmids and many others like them.
ts only later in their life, during their period of decay that they become multicultural and accept all into their ranks. They lose their assabiyah and sense of divine destiny and end up as subjects to their former vassals. The Italians in rome later came to be...
ruled mostly by Illyrian Emperors. The arabs who conquered the middle east later came to be ruled by Turks and Persians in the multikulti Abbasid Empire. The anatolians of the Ottoman Empire came to be ruled by European descended janissaries and sultans.
Nation states are the default and natural form of organization. Empries are an advanced form of this system. And all emprires follow this same course. In America today, WASPs are forced to kneel before Jews and Blacks. People that were once their subjects.
Even today, you can look at the statements of big global elites from WEF, Bilderberg and the UN, the number one threat in their eyes is nationalism.
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