jillian
Princess
So you mean to say that Conservatives oppose Socialism. Well, yeah! Socialism is a failed policy and would destroy the very freedom that was the core beliefs that begot the Constitution.
The problem is you are confusing liberalism/conservatism with capitalism/socialism....
they exist on different spectrums and aren't necessarily related. You need to understand that before you go posting on this subject. You sound silly talking about the destruction of the "core beliefs that begot the Constitution".
The people who wrote the Constitution were out and out radicals. They overthrew a government and if they had lost, would have been hung as traitors. This entire concept that they were someone "conservative" is absurd.
They also weren't 'capitalists" per se since industrialization hadn't occurred. They'd have looked at you blankly if you used such concepts. They were aristocracy. And, hint to what they were thinkng: they made sure there were inheritance taxes because they wanted to cut short the inherited aristocracy concepts taken from Europe.... something the current reactionary right would never agree with.
Conservative = A desire to maintain the status quo
Liberal = A desire for evolutionary societal change
...nothing more, nothing less.