(July 17, 2015 at 3:06 am)Cephus Wrote: Conservatism isn't clinging to any tradition, just because it is a tradition, it is picking and choosing what new ideas to adopt and what new ideas to reject, based on a rational evaluation of those ideas.
In all too many cases you can scrap the "rational" and replace it with "crony".
That isn't meant to say, the other side has necessarily the better ideas.