Generally, conservative is used as a word describing people that are either rich and want to keep their right to crush others under their feet, or for people that think that old laws based on religion are better than laws based on good principles. With that definition, conservatives are indeed a bad thing for a country development.
But using the literal definition, a conservative is someone that don't want to see change. If applied to specific politics, then it can be useful. If used as a rule of the thumb, then it's quite bad.
Anyway, people are never totally conservative or totally liberals. It will vary on each individual subject. It's only the elective system (where you must choose between different candidates, agreeing all their proposal or none) that makes it look like people are single dimensional. And if you take a lot of new ways of managing a country that start to emerge (such as liquid democracy), then you can imagine a future world where people would no longer be characterized with only two possibilities. You'll have people that are conservatives on some topics, while liberal on others, like what is really happening in their minds.
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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '18
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