Are there moral properties that have causal powers or is morality epiphenomenal?

Of course, my topic isn't Remarkl's political beliefs. I don't know enough about them to judge, and they're none of my business. Individuals can have mixed beliefs. They can be conservative about X and liberal about Y. My question in this series of articles is the extent to which conservatism at large, in its various guises can be explained by my deflationary hypothesis. Whether that says all there is to say about one guy's exact politics is another matter.

There's also the possible difference between what someone says he thinks and what his actions and policies indicate about what he really thinks. Most conservatives say they believe that God exists, but their policies indicate otherwise. I'm more interested in what conservatism entails than in taking at face value what conservatives say about themselves. But again, I'm talking about conservatives in general, as represented by this ongoing series of articles.