What is Conservatism to you?

[404.livejournal.com]

I have started on Dr. Alitt's excellent primer on the Conservative Tradition, through The Teaching Company (available @ http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=4812 for those who are interested, it costs money though, but not too much, especially when compared to university level classes), and it got me thinking about what I feel Conservatism as a political philosophy really is. Obviously given from the word that is used: Conservative, which denotes careful planning and rational development, but is that all it is? I am curious in what y'all think it means. Maybe this will spark a conversation that does not break down into name calling, but we shall see.

Comments

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Democrats are conservative, Tea Partiers are liberals!

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Cats and dogs living together. Mass anarchy!

[mijan.livejournal.com]

WIN.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's ironically all too true. Modern day Bush-Republicans and Palin-Republicans are radicals hell-bent on overthrowing traditional Western politics that have existed since the American Revolution. The Progressives have become the real defenders of traditional American values. Ain't history grand? :-).