So would raising taxes also be conservative since it is change too?
I never said conservative means "supportive of change", in fact I said it didn't mean that. Conservatives support some changes and oppose some changes just as liberals, libertarians, communists, fascists, anarchists, greens, royalists, or most other political groupings large and small.
Conservatives also want Roe vrs Wade to be CHANGED BACK.
"Changed back" is change.
Just as raising taxes to pre Bush or pre Reagan tax rates would be a change (and as would lowering the peak rate to previous lower levels)
If there was a very long tradition that was recently changed I could see a case being made for changing back as being "resistance to change", but Roe vs. Wade was decided on January 22, 1973.
Here is the third definition for conservative; Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate. But not very applicable to our talk about conservative in politics.
Neither that definition, nor the one you gave before, is a very good definition of conservative in the terms of political ideology. Some, perhaps many conservatives would fit one or both of those definitions, others not so much.
No dictionary definition is likely to be very adequate to describe a complex multi-faceted political ideology like conservative or liberal.
For example the only directly political definition for liberal at merriam-webster.com is
6 a: of, favoring, or based upon the principles of liberalism bcapitalized : of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism ; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives |
