In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.
Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.