[Pontiac]

Among his claims were that Hobbes was the father of Conservatism - who was an elistist who felt that people should be ruled by a strong government and allowed to participate as little as possible. He also claimed that Reagan was the first president to take money out of social security.

Hobbes was a monarchist which hardly makes him a conservative.

There was never any money to take out of Social Security by design so the question is a non-sequitur.

[JimSEA]

The “Leviathan” was hardly a conservative concept, however, listening to progressives bash the Tea Party and their assumption of some power by democratic means, one might argue that the left is Hobbesian.