Re: Terrible Definition of Political Conservatism
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So if abortion is legal for a 100 years, then a "liberal" will want abortion to be illegal and a "conservative" would want abortion to be legal.....yeah right.
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Yeah, that IS right (kinda). If, historically, there had been a strong (not limited) government, then the conservative position would be to keep the strong government, and the liberal position would be something other than that, either a weaker government or an even stronger government. On a left-right spectrum, the farther to the right you go, the more regressive, and the farther left, the more progressive; the farthest points will be radical on the left and regressive on the right.
You are looking at the parties as they are now, but a liberal two-hundred years ago was not in favor of abortion. The meanings change.
If you want to know where Conservatism as a philosophy originated, I suggest you google or Wikipedia Edmund Burke.
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