If Myckob doesn't mind me mentioning him by name, I site him as an example of someone who sometimes sounds rather hostile to anyone who is a 'conservative'. This is not my understanding of conservative (lower case c). He is referring to political conservatism.
Quote, "One who espouses a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Conservative
I suggest that a political liberal can be a conservative too. That was the case with Churchill, for example, who crossed the floor from Liberal to Conservative party in the UK. Perhaps conservative (note when I use lower or higher case c) has come to mean different things in the USA to what it does in the UK? The USAmerican conservatives seem to adhere to an ideology and even take pride in doing so. They seem almost to bristle at being called liberal, which perhaps accounts for the use Myckob makes of the word? That contrasts with UK PM Teresa May's assertion that her actions aren't motivated by ideology, but presumably like mine as what we see as the balance of arguments.
This is interesting as most USAmericans appear to me to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, much as in Britain and Ireland.
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