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To: Dayuhan who wrote (85883)	8/21/2000 1:03:06 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

...organized groups which call themselves "conservative" may often espouse causes that are not conservative at all, if we take "conservative" to mean cautious, restrained, preferring the incremental step to the absolute step. Quite so, and not only if one takes the common general meaning of the word "conservative" you adduce above. When the dictionary (American Heritage) defines the political meaning of the word, it does so as follows: "Tending to favor the preservation of the existing order and to regard change with distrust." Many of the self-described conservative groups I encounter these days spend much of their time fulminating against the existing order, and proposing radical changes in it, thus espousing causes that are not conservative at all, in the traditionally accepted sense. Clearly, something has gone wrong with the terminology (as in the case of self-described liberals "who espouse causes having nothing to do with liberty"). So, as I say, let's dump it!