One Degree wrote:I did not say conservatives do not like progress. They have nothing against progress. I said a conservative is someone who objects to ‘the current progress’. Big difference.
By that logic, any socialist or communist must be a 'conservative', since they object to the current way in which capitalist society is progressing. After all, things like globalisation or the decline of industry and the rise of finance capitalism is a form of 'progress', which the left objects to. No, a 'conservative' is someone who supports the existing status quo. This implies, of course, that they must also support the way the current status quo is
evolving, since all social and economic systems change over time, and
must change over time. If they approve of free markets (as most conservatives do), they must also approve of globalisation, since that is an inevitable consequence of the spread of free markets across national borders. All of this presupposes, of course, that conservatives actually have a functioning brain, which is not always the case.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)