Monoculture: parliamentary democracy, English common law, and equality before the law. By Jafar Jalili in The Spectator.

Australia’s most vital assets — parliamentary democracy, English common law, and equality before the law –are not neutral tools that ‘fell from the sky’. They are specific products of a Western culture that values the restraint of power and legal continuity.

It is a contemptible form of arrogance to enjoy the fruits of these institutions while insisting that the culture that produced them is irrelevant.

Australia is, at its institutional core, a monocultural society; our laws do not change based on the ‘tribe’ or ‘sect’ of the person standing in court. …

Alien culture:

Labor’s doctrine does not appear to see Australians as equal citizens; it sees them as representatives of ‘favoured racial, religious, or ideological blocs’.

This fragmentation is the antithesis of the Western legal tradition, where citizens meet the state as individuals. By dividing the population into ‘protected identity categories’, the doctrine replaces national unity with tribal competition. This makes a singular, ‘full allegiance’ impossible, as the citizen is encouraged to look first to their sub-group and only secondarily to the nation. If citizenship is treated as just one ‘preference among many’, the strong link between a people and their institutions is broken.

Individualism, capitalism, and liberty are anathema to would-be rulers who see themselves as aristocrats in a newly feudal society. “Progressivism” is a return to the usual human pattern of a small class of aristos, with the help of a military and a priestly/scientific/bureaucratic class, ruling over a mass of peasants — the new term is “communism.”