People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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.
Radical politics tend to be simple minded.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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