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I believe you are misinformed. Conservatives favor societal pressure through tradition over government mandate. Tradition is an amalgam of commonly accepted attitudes and practices that has evolved over time through the societal strengthening of things that work and rejection of things that lead to conflict and failure. Tradition is a collection of habits that have proved useful in a huge variety of practical affairs. Through tradition, we can know subtle and fundamental features of the world, and how it relates us to others that would otherwise escape us, and allows our understanding of those things to assume a concrete and usable form.
Modern liberals call on government to organize society. The obvious alternative to a reliance on tradition is reliance on theory and theory can only be enforced upon us by the government. Taking theory literally, however, can be costly because it achieves clarity by ignoring things that are difficult to articulate. Tradition has shown us over and over, however, that such things can be important, The reason that traditional politics and morals are learned mostly by experience and imitation of those that have come before, is that most of what we need toknow about them is expressed in habits, attitudes and implicit beliefs that we couldn't begin to put into words, even if we wanted to. There is no means other than tradition to accumulate, conserve and hand on such knowledge.
Here you are clearly misguided or at the very least, misinformed. See conservative tenet #3:
Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes, as against the notion of a 'classless society
The most obvious step taken by government to "even out" class differences is the redistibution of wealth. Clearly an idea of the modern liberal. Consider the progressive tax system for example. The idea literally punishes success. In reading your statements, it seems that you don't separate in your mind, the modern liberal from the classical liberal. The classical liberal of a couple of hundred years ago is today's conservative. The men that founded America were classical liberals. The Constitution of the US is classical liberalism at it's best and yet, the modern liberal finds it of little use today and seeks every way at his disposal to get around it.
This is a socialist concept and perfectly describes the attitudes of modern liberals. Not conservatives.
It is clear that you have a misconception of what conservativism is. Conservativism is the spirit of live and let live. Conservatives don't really care so long as the business is not breaking the laws of the land. If the business is built on a bad model, the market will either correct it, or put it out of business. It is modern liberalism that feels the need to tether business though not for any reason that they would be willing to honestly articulate.
I don't know if they are worded exactly the same, but they originate from a book called "the conservative mind". I would warn against trying to form a rational opinion about a philosophy as it exists in 2007 from the writings of a man in the 1700's. Classical liberalism lives today in modern conservativism.
