definition of a conservative

[Guest guest]

Gave me the giggles:

 

"

resistant to change

opposed to liberal reforms

cautious: avoiding excess; " a conservative estimate "

button-down: unimaginatively conventional; " a colorful character in the

buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business " - Newsweek

a person who has conservative ideas or opinions

bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

" a bourgeois mentality " "

" in politics, a loosely defined term indicating adherence to one or more of

a family of attitudes, including respect for tradition and authority and

resistance to wholesale or sudden changes. "

" *right wing

**n.*

 

1. The conservative or reactionary faction of a group.

2. See

*right*<http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=8gg8nmsaifdns?method=4 & ds\

id=1555 & dekey=R0243700 & curtab=1555_1 & sbid=lc05b>(sense

15). "

 

" " Conservatism: Political philosophy that emphasizes conserving as much as

possible of the present economic, social, and political order. " "

And finally my favorite... basically saying that there are as many different

types of conservatives as there are members of a conservative party.

 

"

 

*Conservatism* [derivative of *conserve*; from Latin *conservare*, to keep,

guard, observe] is a philosophy

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy>defined by Edmund

Burke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke> as " a disposition to

preserve, and an ability to

improve " .[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism#endnote_Burke>Classical

conservatism does not readily avail itself to the ideology of

objectives. It is a philosophy primarily concerned with means over ends. To

a conservative, the goal of change is less important than the insistence

that change be effected with a respect for the rule of law and traditions of

society. The traditional enemy of conservatism, therefore, is

radicalism<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalism>(not, as is often

asserted,

liberalism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism>).

 

Because conservatism is tethered to the traditions of a given society, it

cannot hold any single, universal meaning across the world. Additionally,

conservative 'means' are often combined with other ideological 'ends' (e.g.:

Conservative or Classical

Liberal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Liberalism>versus

Radical

Liberal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalism_%28historical%29>).

Conservatism is older than the left-right

division<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-right_politics>in politics;

and conservatives may align with either the left or right

depending on the time and place. "

 

 

 

 

 

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