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(adj.)
1. Literally, indicative of a sparing application. Frugal.
2. In the U.S., commonly used by many members of the Republican Party to contrast themselves with liberal politicians, commonly of the Democratic Party.
3. Originally used by Republican Party (U.S.) members to mean conservative application of laws, or minimal government.
4. In modern times, used to indicate existing or past values as opposed to new values. In this sense, "conservative" refers to personal behavior rather than the use of laws. A synonym for this definition would be "unchanging."
Usage notes:
When using the word, it is important to note whether it is used to refer to a political theory/system or personal values/behavior.
In the case of number 3 above, both the Republican and Democratic parties hold conservative _political_ values (in that they want minimal government regulation), but about different subjects. For example, the Democratic Party typically believes in conservative (minimal) use of laws regarding drugs, sexual practices, and film/TV. The Republican Party does not follow conservative political theory in those matters, but does for issues of taxation, guns, and employment practices.
However, even though both parties hold conservative political values in some cases, neither maintains a consistant philosophy based on conservative application of government regulation. Both the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. use the word to refer to enforcing conservative _personal_values_ (such as those influenced by religious background or otherwise, see number 4 above), but with differing opinions as to whether or not it is a good thing.
The original political use for the word conservative, as in number 3 above, is more similar to the political adjective/noun libertarian in use today, which describes a philosophy of minimal government,
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A word often misconstrued by anyone that his differing opinions. They are, in fact, not racist by definition, they don't, in fact, hate all gays by definition, and they don't want to kill people that don't have the same color skin as them. If they did than half the country would be running around trying to get up their body count.
A somewhat similar definition could be applied to liberal.
I walked by a conservative today. They were pretty much the exact same as me, but had different political opinions. I'm a minority and I was not shot.
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verb,
1. The act of purposely remaining ignorant and uneducated.
noun,
1. A state of being. Can cause victims to deny facts and phenomena despite overwhelming amounts of peer reviewed scientific evidence.
Examples of "conservative persons" include global warming skeptics, supporters of abstinence only education and believers in self-regulating corporations and banks.
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Those who believe in doing whats right and having a strong moral base. Those who believe in hard work and not being given everything by the government. The individual is the most important things to conservatives. They believe that the government isnt the answer to the problem but that government is the problem.
Liberal: The government should pay for my health care and we should tax everything.
Conservative: Stop buying weed you freaking hippy and maybe you can pay your medical bill. And give my money back so I can actually do something good with it instead of giving it to freaking drug addicts.
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An ironic title for those who support discriminating gays, who support war, who support less government control.
Conservative: I support war which is the most expensive thing on the planet but ill call myself a conservative!!!!!
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"A conservative is someone who was born with two legs, but never learned to move forward"
-FDR
conservatives will eventually die out
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A person who blames all of his/her problems in life on the liberal media.
Susan is such a conservative! She thinks her cat died because of Dan Rather.
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