Wonky Pundit
USMB's Silent Snowden
Conservativism started at the end of the hunt when Caveman Urk bashed Caveman's Yug in the head with his club, took his share of the meat, raped Yug's wife and declared himself leader of the tribe.
It's been going downhill since.
That's more like how dictatorship started. Eventually some dictators figured out that they'd have to share a little of their power to prevent their own heads from getting bashed in.
That kind of power sharing formed a key foundation of liberalism.