Conservatives conserve the status quo, whatever that happens to be at the time and is always sliding leftwards as the Overton Window is forced ever leftward.
I'm a realist/traditionalist or whatever the term for it happens to be.
Conservatives are by definition traditionalist. Any who disagree are by definition not conservative.
OP's meme as actually about neo-cons, not conservatives.
There's more to it than just being traditionalist. You can be a traditionalist and not be conservative. If you pay attention to those that call themselves conservative and listen to what they actually believe, you will find that they are just slipping and sliding along with the Overton Window.
That proves my point that conservatives care only about the here and now and not changing things back. They all claim you can't go back to the policies of the past, but they can never say why. The reality is we have one party that is full speed ahead to socialism/communism and the NWO and the other is let's take our time getting there...there's no need to rush.
There's plenty of evidence to show the policies enacted and celebrated during the 20th Century don't work, yet no one wants to undo them. No one wants to undo them because those policies have become the new tradition. That's why I refuse the label conservative.
Conservatism is the conservation and preservation of traditional values. This includes theological, political, social, and economics. With moral absolutism tethered to the mix. You cannot be a conservative without being a traditionalist. Which also means a constitutionalists.
The momentum of the Overton window is created by propaganda. In this regard much of your comment is very much biased and somehow manages to ignore and even exclude most all of humanity from the same judgement.
Propaganda is a powerful force and has been in play for a very long time. Couched upon progressiveness, neo-con, evangelical christianity, and as such are simply sociopolitical labels of the same thing, positioned accordingly. Ultimately, no one is immune. The lack of immunity is certainly not conservative's fault and it is intellectually dishonest to single us out.
None of this means that the meme is accurate. Bluntly, it's laughably wrong and reveals profane ignorance on the part of OP and its supporters.
Conservatives are supposed to be many things but largely lacks leadership and role models. As such, most "conservatives" don't even know what it means, let alone if they even are.
The Overton window has convinced many that neo-cons are conservatives and then they self sort and label; albeit incorrectly. Imo, this is the largest source of confusion. Fact is, not only are we politically powerless, there are extremely few of us. Accordingly, OP's meme is as ignorant as it is malicious as it continues to feedback and acknowledge the propaganda which created OP's ignorance in the first place. As such, conservative ranks continue to dwindle by attrition as would-be recruits are turned away.
I'm proudly a conservative. I would laugh and point at OP but it's indicative of much broader societal sickness.
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