“Conservatism” is not necesarily “right”. It is simply the desire for things to remain the same or go to what they were. At one point in history our constitution, which is what American conservatism wants to go back to, was considered “leftist” and “liberal” while loyalty to England and the monarchy was “conservative” and “right wing”. Right/Left/Liberal/Conservative is dependent on the situation and is not a blanket meaning throughout the world.
the political spectrum is not linear but circular. picture a clock face. fascism 0100 conservatism 0300
moderate 0600 original definition of liberalism 0800 democrap party/euro socialism 1000, communism 1100. so fascism and comminism are very close to the same think
The American Revolutionaries weren’t quite as ‘Revolutionary’ as people think. They fought to maintain traditional English liberties that they considered were being eroded by the British Crown. The subsequent US Constitution was aimed at entrenching those old ideals and liberties against the pressures of increasing government centralisation.
The French Revolution was a genuine left-wing Revolutionary attempt to destroy all vestiges of the old system, right down to the attempt to turn the year back to zero...