A corrupt "near perfect conservative" is just as deadly as near perfect liberal. And we are all corrupt. There must be a transcendent ethic to hold a people togeather. History tells us that the Randian ideal more often comes in form of Nietzsche's Ubermensch than as Hank Reardon. Nihilism is the only alternative to Theism. There's no way around it.
Speak for yourself.