“The Left believes itself to be participating in some grand project of human improvement, an ambitious endeavour that points towards a comprehensive moral transformation of society. Conservatives don’t believe in this because they have a much more heightened sense of human fallibility.”
Leftists don’t like the realities of human nature and are constantly on the warpath to change it, resorting to brute force more often than not, and only succeeding in making life a living hell.
Conservatives accept the realities of human nature and try to make the best of it.
That’s it exactly. Leftists believe they can mould human nature to their liking - its all just a question of political will. But utopia is always a mirage on the distant horizon that can only be approached by crossing an ocean of blood.
In the end they never get any closer to utopia. They just spill a lot of blood and create hell on earth in the process.
You can’t change human nature. The best you can do is acknowledge it and try to channel some potentially negative impulses toward productive or at least non harmful ends.