What is Conservatism?

I always thought this myself...that conservatives are generally less intelligent. Certainly seems to apply to every conservative I've met and every conservative I've came about through the news or books.

 

And those that are intelligent tend to be malign and use their intelligence in wicked ways.

 

that is what they try to pretend, or are you just being cynicly satyrical?

whatever it is the're in touch with, it doesn't bear the slightest resemblence to any objective reality i've ever observed.

the reality that humans are gullable maybe, while trying to pretend and deny up one side and down the other that this is the case.

liberals and conservatives are both mystaken more often then not about both morality and tradition, but a conserviative is still someone who puts what they claim to be tradition ahead of any rational concept of morality while a liberal does the opposite and puts what they believe, perhapse nearly as often mistakenly, to be morality ahead of the pseudo-traditions of so called conservatism.

where neither make sense, is in putting any idiology ahead of the kind of world, we all, every last one of us, actualy, in every day life, have to live in.

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Agreed.

True conservatism is less government in your life, no big shots calling the shots.

True Liberalism aka. Socialism is the true tyranny.

Does anyone else notice how the Democrat Party ideas and philosophies resemble almost exactly Hitlers agenda during WW2.....dont make me explain this, seriously. It was indeed the Nazi Socialist Party.

 

Also....

Try not to pin Conservatives for being Pro Choice retarded imbred racist Christain hicks. These are just the people who are screwing up my PARTY!

The idea of Small government has been around longer then abortions.

 

Bullshit, true conservatism minimizes your social freedom and maximizes your economic freedom. Something the founding fathers hated.

Without liberalism you wouldn't be using a computer.

Were the founding fathers tyrannic?

Liberalism is a political ideology while socialism is an economic theory.

Socialism without liberty is cruelty, liberty without socialism is injustice.

Who is in power?

 

Because conservatism is anti change/progress. If it weren't for liberalism, we would still be in the stone age and equating disease to sin.

Science would not exist everything would be because of god.

 

"progressive is adaptive, conservative is ignorant"

even says so on a bumper sticker.

to evolve means to adapt, and conservatives are maladaptive, period.

Herrm, you are incorrect... Republicans have always stood for capitalism, while Democrats have traditionally represented "the little people".
Neo-Conservatives are utter scum with stagnant minds, who are complacent with hard work; mindslaves to the almighty dollar... yeah, that's real ethical. Damn the environment, full speed ahead.
and with their self-righteous moral-based decision making,
As a scientist, I consider them an enemy to real progress.


dumb hicks who support a man who cuts taxes on the rich, but not the working class, should really stay in bed and never get up. They are too dumb to function as competent members of society; Bush does not subsidize John Deere equipment, instead he loosens air quality restrictions on oligopolies like the Exxon-Mobil group. If it wasn't for their hospitality in this state, I'd do what the punks did to the hicks at the beginning of 'SLC Punk'.

and I can never understand why some young people decide to keep their minds in an unimaginative rut; look outside of your fish-bowl microcosm, kiddies...there's a much bigger picture to look at. Stop thinking about today and yesterday, and focus on tomorrow.

 

That's quite a good description of 'Conservatism'.

In Britain,the word is less associated with political dogmatism & more understood to define a political party:
'The Conservative Party' .
They are anti-change & under Margaret Thatcher were- as 'lassaiz-fair' as possible.
I identify 'conservatism' as the rich & priviliged's code for maintaing their wealth & luxury from generation to generation.