In contrast to ESG-promoting stakeholder capitalism, coherent conservatism is simply the politics that emerges when control is not the priority; it is the politics that does not seek to break down community in order to use its parts.
In Europe, the eco-‘woke’ movement is nowhere as strong as it is in Berlin. But after a nepotism scandal was exposed, Germany’s Greens have gone on the defense.
The dismissal of one of Germany’s most influential green policymakers has triggered discord in Berlin’s ruling coalition, as public opinion turns against the once-popular Green Party.
Capitalism does not destroy other values, nor does it come without respectable merits. Quite the contrary: the profit motive has elevated human existence to unprecedented levels. We can feed more mouths, cure more of the sick, educate, and elevate more people than we have ever been able to do. The problem lies instead in the fallibility of human nature.
