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The problem here is that the vast majority of Christianity is very optimistic. Only offshoots like Calvinism embrace pessimism.

Likewise, Judaism tends to an odd sort of pessimism of an almost Asiatic variety. And it and Christianity do not mesh well because this fundamental difference runs so deep that it even includes their interpretations of human history.

A good way to describe the Jewish view is as a sine wave. When times are very bad for the Jews, their inclination is to become more religious, moral and righteous, and because of this they are rewarded with better times, increased prosperity and well being. But when times are good, they stray from their faith, lose their moral underpinnings and misbehave, which leads to their downfall and punishment.

This leads to a pessimistic outlook, because if times are good, despair, oppression and poverty is just around the corner.

Using the same model, however, Christianity is like a sawtooth wave. Their view of history is that, left to our own devices, mankind will invariably degenerate into a moral cesspool. But when we are at a low ebb, a great spiritual leader, like the Biblical patriarchs and even Jesus, comes along and very abruptly elevates mankind to a great spiritual and moral height.

This lends itself to great optimism, as the worse things get, the closer mankind is to having a great spiritual revival. It even reaches a point that before the greatest of all spiritual evolutions, even mankind is not debauched enough to descend so low, that a powerful, unearthly and evil being will drive us all down into the basement.

So how does this relate to conservative optimism?

Conservatives are optimistic because they temper their optimism with realism. They reject idealistic perfectionism on Earth, as well as the efforts by the left to achieve it.

The left screams that (to quote Josef Stalin), “You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”

But conservatives point out that vast numbers of eggs can be broken and still not make an omelet, because that is the left’s entire recipe, to break eggs.

That, combined with the fact that those leftists that embrace the international socialism movement are inherently anti-national sovereign, anti-patriotic, and are opposed to any unique American culture, provides more than adequate motivation for conservatives to both oppose them and be optimistic.

Because leftists are ignorant, naive and ineffectual. They can only tear down, they cannot create, because they are fools.