Last year, conservative commentator Matt Walsh released his iconic documentary, What is a woman? thrusting the question deep into the heart of partisan debates.

It’s since become a global credo for the anti-Woke rebellion, even travelling far enough to stump Australian and New Zealand lawmakers. Despite its potency, no answer or rebuttal has yet been given. The sting of this (presumably basic) question is lost when wielded by Australian conservatives, a group that seems to have enough trouble defining itself (let alone gender) in recent years. With droves of voters still backing the national Liberal Party, how much longer can we call ourselves the ‘side of reason’ or even ‘reality’? It’s time to correct our own delusions before we can hope for a common sense renaissance.

Historically, Conservatism was a fight to maintain the status quo. Right now, the Liberals can’t fight to conserve their dignity – let alone the status quo. Even the proudest Catholic among them spent his time as  the New South Wales Premier surrendering to the Left’s shelling of the culture war.

Dominic Perrottet is unmistakably conservative. His source of defeat, besides being from a party addicted to failing, was a desperate, neither-here-nor-there style of leadership. Back-tracking and apologising to the tune of media activists is a political sin worse than incompetence. Progressives would never vote for a religious candidate. Conservatives would never vote for a weak one. Who was he trying to impress?

More importantly, what exactly do conservatives want that Mr Perrottet and the Liberals have so shamelessly run away from?

Conservatives traditionally come from large cultural, ethnic, or religious communities where social harmony reigns supreme. Residents are united by a common interest; parents work hard to give their children a head-start, and neighbours feel a sense of duty towards each other. Being raised under such prosperity, they simply want to recreate that model on a national level.

Years of empirical research suggests conservatives are happier than their progressive counterparts. It’s almost as if residential harmony and support breed better outcomes. Progressives, meanwhile, tend to find solace in makeshift communities created by city planners or state officials. It’s an understatement to say that these experiments have failed with tragic consequences. Crime, division, and violence are rampant in major city hubs for those that can afford living there. Most people can’t – sparking a mass exodus from cities toward rural regions.

It just so happens that conservatives have the most success in fostering a thriving community. Much of that comes down to their controversial policy choices; immigration is cut back to reduce cultural clashes, citizens are sourced locally by encouraging marriage and childbirth, while sexual promiscuity is discouraged to minimise divorce or single-parent households. Those who dismiss these values should check Australia’s declining birth rate. Progressives have yet to realise that you can’t save a planet when there is nobody left to inhabit it.

The secret to a prosperous State is fostering a sense of pride or belonging among citizens. The Scandinavian success story, despite being claimed as a left-wing victory, may as well be a conservative manifesto. Norway and surrounding countries are among the most culturally homogeneous places on earth. Diversity is not their strength – it’s their similarity and likeness that has perched them atop social index scores.

Australian conservatives should not apologise for these ideals or support parties that are ashamed to pursue them. It might just be time to put your vote elsewhere.

With their recent failures, the Liberals are becoming the Bud Light of Australian politics; fashionably unpopular and universally disliked.

In their case, the Woke are well and truly going broke.