Conservatism. An Obituary

Why is Conservatism in Europe and America an abysmal failure at reversing the tide of Statism and Socialism? One word.Prgamatism.It thinks it can fight ideology with pragmatism.Despite all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary in particular re the EU but more broadly the whole drift to State gigantism Conservatism has had no adequate response and has been dragged along by the rip tide of Statism.Conservatives are weak morally intellectually,philosophically.They boast about their greatest weakness and wear it like a badge of pride.They are low on self awarenss and believe you cannot eat principles missing the whole point that without them no one can survive except on a brute animalistic anti conceptual subjectivist level of concrete bound day to day reactions totally disconnected from reality.They think this is superior to working from first principles and scoff at those who believe in them as 'unrealistic, and 'immature.' A classic case of projection.What could be more puerile than reacting on a non conceptual level lke a child that has learned no hierachy of values and moves on a range of the moment level reacting to events in an arbitrary disconnected pre conceptual stimulus response level?