>>105710438So you don't know what liberalism and conservatism are. Conservatism is an emphasis on maintaining the status quo. It usually works well enough for people to get by, so it's doing something right, and that warrants maintenance. Liberalism is an emphasis on changing the status quo. The status quo always has problems, and that warrants attention. Liberalism is important, but only conservatism is capable of maintaining stable societies. Since stable societies tend to outcompete unstable ones, this means that most societies over time tend to be be very conservative, with emphasis on strict tradition and harsh punishment for deviation from cultural norms. Because such practices allow a culture to maintain itself over time. The modern first-world standard of multiculturalism and fast social change is historical anomaly that only lasts for a short time whenever it occurs (because it's unstable).
Liberalism certainly has its benefits. Industrialization, the Enlightenment, and various other important things would not have happened without it, and they allowed Europe to conquer the world in a historical eyeblink. But liberalism has never been the prevailing attitude towards change among human cultures. Most people in most times and places have been reasonably comfortable with their circumstances, and don't want to risk what they have unnecessarily.
So to US politics. The last few decades have seen legalization of abortion, major changes in immigration policy and demographics, enormous expansion to welfare programs, and large changes in prevailing attitudes to the places of homosexuality, drugs, and women in society. In a world where Islamic theocracy and hunter-gatherer tribalism still exist.
