[CottonBall]

"Conservatism" isn't judged by who is where on a linear ideological spectrum at a particular point in history.

That was also very well put.

[Das Outsider]

That was also very well put.

Well thank you! ;)

Western conservativism has much more to do with historical, traditional, religious, and ancestral ties--not to mention, a general frame of mind based upon such--than nineteenth- and twentieth-century theories, ideologies, current issues of the day, and the ongoing game of musical chairs that is image politics.