Institutions v. Kollectives

Progressivism is formed around the idea that a perfect society will appear from the clouds after the people band together to form the collective.

Conservative movements often form to protect an institution. For example, the Conservative Party was formed in the 1830s to protect The Peerage, the Monarchy and the economic structures surrounding the monarchy.

In debates, the left routinely attacks institutions in a call for collectivization. The right routine attacks the collectives while calling for money to shore up institutions.

So, I began wondering: What is the difference between a collective and an institution?

The biggest difference is that a collective is something imaginary. An institution is something that has been realized.

Leftists will argue that all institutions currently in place have a hierarchical structure. This is absurd because the collectives that left creates always have an inside group that controls the collective. Any collective that stands for a generation or two will have a rigid hierarchical structure.

One usually sees Communist countries like Russia, China and North Korea developing hierarchical structures that objective observers would recognized as "conservative."

I hold that the shrill debate between left and right is non-sense.

The left is arguing for creation of new institutions. They simply imagine the new institutions will be just because their partisan group has power.

Conservatives, in contrast, mindlessly defend the existing institutions that they benefit from without questioning if the institution is just.

The motivation behind both groups is simply: Power.

Americans need to #walkaway from both of these corrupt partisan ideologies and recognize the partisan debate as nonsense. Both the Progressive and Conservative movements end with the people institutionalized.