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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (91203)10/21/2008 7:08:34 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541780
 
Do you find that definition insulting?

I've never been what you'd call conservative (although I never came close to investing in any derivatives and have bunches of munis<g>) so I'm hardly insulted. I just like words that represent concepts and care about keeping them straight.

that conservative is not about "conserving" the old way and resisting change

I can live with "resisting." My problem was with "opposing." Of course conservatives are resistant to change. "First, conserve what you have" is the rule. Conservative people are cautious, perhaps overly cautious, even stuck in the mud.

As for opposing change, lots of people oppose change. Change is uncomfortable, demanding, unsettling. People who oppose change, in my experience, are timid or lazy or pessimistic or simply too content to disrupt their comfort zones. None of that is the same as "conservative."
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