No need to check. I already know.
Well obviously you don't.
Obviously I do. There are no conservatve european nations. Perhaps you don't know what conservative means because you never lived in a conservative nation. I have lived under a conservative government but haven't for at least 30 years. You are clueless.
You have to be honest with yourself here - at the point your own politics become so extreme that you deny that the Conservative Party is Conservative, you have completely lost contact with reality.
Calling oneself conservative doesn't make one conservative. The British conservative party is far more liberal than the US republican party and the republican party is no longer conservative. It is simply less liberal than the democrat party. You obviously don't know jack.
And I note that you still haven't been able to name just 3 things that you can do in your country that involves no government interference without going to the most mundane aspect of your life....and then you claim to live under a conservative government? You are a joke.
Here you are denying that four conservative governments are conservative - when ANY dictionary will tell you they are. Would I also be right in suggesting that you have not been tp even one of the countries inolved here?
Define conservative. My bet is that you can't even do that.
A conservative government operates on certain principles...principles that are sorely lacking in the US government and damned near absent in european governments. Some of those principles are as follows:
First and foremost a conservative government establishes and protects negative liberty as opposed to positive liberty. Positive liberty is a liberal tool because it is a source of governmental power.
A conservative government values tradition and freedom over governmental power. I can't help but note that you can't even name 3 things you can do without government interference without going to the most tedious aspect of yoru life. If you lived under a conservative government you would have a more difficult time naming things that the government interfered in.
Conservative governments are not politically correct. If you find political correctness in a government, it is not conservative no matter what it says. A conservative government is concerned with protecting your inalienable rights, not fabricating rights to protect such as the right to not be offended.
A few other characteristics of a conservative government is the acknowledgement, but not the enforcement of a moral order. Tell me any of the governments you listed track along those lines. A conservative government tends to respect custom, tradition, and continuity as opposed to liberals who actively seek changes in all aspects of one's life and will use the law to enforce those changes. Conservative governments tend to preserve variety as opposed to liberal government who seek homoginization....active mixing of various cultures to the point that the original culture is lost in favor of one the state feels that it can live with.....
A conservative government is strongly in favor of privat property and rarely if ever interferes with the rights that go along with private property. Simple ownership does not mean that one has property rights. Excessive regulation degrades property rights and is a tool of liberalism. A conservative government will avoid law and regulation that moves any group or the society at large towards collectivism. None of the states you named have had a very good record on one of the cornerstones of conservativism.
A conservative government is self restrained in its use of power. Localities would have more power that the central government under a truely conservative government. Truely conservative government happens primarily at the local level with the central government handling tasks like negotiating foriegn treaties, delivering the mail, and protecting the borders. Again, all of the states you named have very strong central governments and weak regional and local governments in comparison thus failing the very defninition of conservative government.
Face it - you ARE an extremist.
Spoken like a true liberal who lives in fear of conservativism. You don't know what the hell you are talking about.
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party,
Since a genuinely conservative government would oppose any form of collectivism, the conservative and unionist party fails the conservative benchmark in its name, and right center doesn't mean anything if not put in context. Right center of what?
It is clear that as with science, you don't know jack. You read what you are spoonfed and have never taken the time to actually learn anything in your life. You are a child in the arena of political philosophy but if you want to have yourself a brand new asshole torn in public, then take your claims over to a political thread and I will be happy to demonstrate what a lifetime of study of political philosophy looks like in comparison to your quick peek at a dictionary.
