Why are Conservatives so afraid of change?

[JohnnyBoots]

[jody]

1. If it was good enough for Adam and Eve, it's good enough for them. n/t

[JohnnyBoots]

3. Or as my old red state students use to tell me, "I believe in

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." The Conservatives are great at repeating talking points. They are like evil parrots.

[Ron Green]

2. Life is change. Fear of change = fear of life itself. Morans.

[JohnnyBoots]

4. A very insightful interpretation.

[Pithy Cherub]

5. Because they are not in charge of it.

Fear permeates everything for conservatives.

[JohnnyBoots]

7. Explains the faith based factor

[UTUSN]

6. They Got Theirs. They Don't Want Anybody Else to Get Any n/t

[xchrom]

8. read some old marshal mcluhan{sp?}

from the 60's.
he describes people from a media persepective that fear change.

but i put it up to an aspect of being human.
not very intelligent human -- but human none the less.

the thing i find do disturbing are the number of university educated people who are conservative -- i.e. the anti tax freaks, ayn rand followers, pnac types -- i have no excuse for them other than gree, power and money.

[warrens]

9. Conservatives serve a very useful purpose

They tend to oppose change and conserve what we have. They act as a check on change activists. They are highly useful, because without their role, the fringe can take over. As it is doing now in the GOP, but when the conservatives really rise up, which they are doing, the neocons are going to be shattered.

I will happily go back to arguing marginal tax rates and foreign policy and so on with rational people who happen to disagree with me, as opposed to nazi clowns who call anyone who disagrees with them traitors and loonies.

I was a debater in high school and for a while in college, and I could slaughter their logic at times (this was the Vietnam war period, so it was easy pickings). But I had to admire a lot of them; they love this country too, they just differ on how quickly change should be instituted. And frankly, our side has some total nuts who would, if they could, make chopping down a tree a crime.

You need contending forces to keep change manageable and sane. But the neocons are a whole new phenomenon. They are exactly like the Nazi party, without the anti-Semitism, in their drive to absolute power. They have no real beliefs; they are power freaks who probably have contingency plans to invade Mars because Marvin the Martian is a threat to our security.

Present day conservatives like Lugar and the handful who have managed to survive the right wing putsch are people you can respect even if you disagree with them.