Societies and cultures fall when conventions, traditions, and customs are subsumed to anarchistic breeches of those traditions and customs. The very essence of our Conservatism is tied to seeing that those traditions and customs are not replaced willy-nilly, but that we consider the weight of changes and use our reason to determine if a change is salutary or deleterious. Over the past several days I have seen what I believe to be very deleterious changes taking place at Free Republic, and being Conservative by nature, allied to tradition, and filled with the utmost respect for the customs that enabled Free...