@wjmaggos asked how my beliefs deviate from conservative orthodoxy.
I grew up in a liberal environment and left it because I saw that what we said we wanted was never produced by what we were doing.
Consequently, I am more of the paleoconservative or European New Right vein of conservative, but am best described as a "roots conservative."
I see no need for the proxies of the last century or so.
So let me list them...