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It's not about party success. Conservative values generally mean trying to keep things the same. A hard to change set of rules supports this. Progressive value
by advisedwang 4y ago
It's not about party success.
Conservative values generally mean trying to keep things the same. A hard to change set of rules supports this. Progressive values generally mean trying to make changes [to improve society]. Being able to change rules supports this.
We should therefore expect conservative people to want a hard to amend constitution and progressive people to want a easy to amend constitution, regardless of whether or not they are in power. I expect this asymmetry to be visible in whether more ammendments are proposed (and ratified under) progressive or conservative regiemes.
- buscoquadnary 4y ago> Progressive values generally mean trying to make changes [to improve society]. So I think you are technically correct on the definition of progressive and conservative but I would take issue that the progressive side is always trying to change things to better society. After all prohibition, legalized lobotomies, and eugenics we're a big part of the progressive policy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, of course so we're things like labor laws, income tax and other more ambiguous things like the direct election of senators. My point is not all movement is forward movement.
- Georgelemental 4y agoThe intent of the changes is to better society, even if we don't agree that that was the actual effect.
- parineum 4y agoThe intent of conservatism is to conserve positive aspects of society.