It seems true that mob rule == conservatism, but is that alwasys bad? Remember the SOPA/PIPA spectacle? The conservative mob hated it and fought to keep the internet as it is, and that was a good thing.
Conservative means to not want change for change's sake, and that can be a good thing sometimes.
It's not so much fear of changes to come, but fear of the last few decades of change, and trying to get back to an idealised past. I'm in England. Tabloid-driven conservatism here tends to be xenophobic, homophobic, europhobic, ... basically panphobic.
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It seems true that mob rule == conservatism, but is that alwasys bad? Remember the SOPA/PIPA spectacle? The conservative mob hated it and fought to keep the internet as it is, and that was a good thing.
Conservative means to not want change for change's sake, and that can be a good thing sometimes.
I agree about SOPA.
It's not so much fear of changes to come, but fear of the last few decades of change, and trying to get back to an idealised past. I'm in England. Tabloid-driven conservatism here tends to be xenophobic, homophobic, europhobic, ... basically panphobic.
Or that may be my liberal bias.