If you believe this, then please post subtantive sources for your claims. Your list is only a personal opinion at this point Evan that is not refuted or supported by anything. Also, given the time period for some of your claims, it must be noted that 'conservatives' during some of those time periods came form different political parties.



>So many points to address here, the first is liberalism vs conservatism. This is a no brainer as to which ideology has their head in the sand.
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>Conservatism opposed the following:
>- freedom of religion (support christianity over others)
>- abolition of slavery (think Jim Crow laws)
>- equal rights for women
>- equal rights for minorites
>- the teaching of well support science such as evolution
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>Things that conservatism supported
>- McCarthyism
>- polygamy
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>Who in their right mind would support a philosophy with a poor track record on some of the biggest advancements in civilization as that?
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>Even looking at the definition of conservatism: "is a political philosophy that necessitates a defense of established values or the status quo". This is simply flawed. The idea that we've achieved perfection is unsupportable. Clearly from the list above conservatives were fighting to keep us in a society with a set of values that were terrible.