[PeterPrinciple]

Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html

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Folks,

This is 3rd item on a bing search for conservatism. Know your enemy.

[C19fan]

That defintion from a tenured professor at UCLA, in Information Technology. Shameful.

[KC Burke]

The leftist would always want “conservatism” confused with those trying to protect or return to a privileged pattern of old but, alas, that is a “reactionary” position — not conservatism. Burke declared that the conservative understands change is necessary to protect what we have inherited and careful reforming change has been part of conservatism from the first.

Of course, the left is always setting up its own aristocracy of the anointed intellectual with faceless bureaucrats as their gate keepers.

[PeterPrinciple]

In The Devil’s Dictionary (1906), the American writer Ambrose Bierce cynically (but not inappropriately) defined the conservative as “a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”

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There is an essence of truth in the above.......