What's The Appeal of Conservatism?

[Rev. Rye]

I don't see much of an appeal to conservatism, unless you are of the opinion that things worked better in the past, so we should aim to have a society that has been observed to 'work'.

That's pretty much the same reason I think conservativism has any appeal. It's full of people who want to give a model that didn't work for long another chance. And I suppose that appealing to people's fear of what they don't understand works, too.