And like most university and reference texts, they are written by communist academics. I have bristled at that bigoted definition for decades.
Like many common terms, there are multiple legitimate definitions, but I have never seen my lifelong conservatism accurately defined by any such propagandists.
What’s being conserved and how and why?
The balanced, God integrated life may be impossible to classify as either Conservative or Liberal. Centrist may be the closest mortal term.