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A [[conservative]] is someone who wants things to remain the way they are, or to restore them to the way they used to be. He desire to preserve the goodness of traditional values and share these with others.
 
A [[conservative]] is someone who wants things to remain the way they are, or to restore them to the way they used to be. He desire to preserve the goodness of traditional values and share these with others.
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*Sometimes conservatives provide obstacles to progress, as when conservative Democrats in the deep South blocked [[desegregation]]
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*Sometimes conservatives provide obstacles to progress, as when conservative Democrats in the deep South blocked [[desegregation]], or when conservatives in Congress voted against raising taxes to pay for the medical bills of World Trade Center First Responders<ref>http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0710/House_GOP_leaders_911_first_responders_aid_bill_a_massive_new_entitlement_program.html</ref>
    
The term ''conservative'' has been abused by proponents of anti-Christian or pro-[[socialist]] movements, who argue that certain proposals are "[[progressive]]" and but that criticize of these proposals in motivated only by an obstinate backwardness of traditionalists refusing to recognize the value of the proposals
 
The term ''conservative'' has been abused by proponents of anti-Christian or pro-[[socialist]] movements, who argue that certain proposals are "[[progressive]]" and but that criticize of these proposals in motivated only by an obstinate backwardness of traditionalists refusing to recognize the value of the proposals
 
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