As someone who is not a conservative, but is interested in what and why people think and believe thing, I don't think that's a fair characterization. It seems t

As someone who is not a conservative, but is interested in what and why people think and believe thing, I don't think that's a fair characterization. It seems to me that conservative care a great deal about negative externalities that effect the existing social order, or may do so in the future. I think the problem is two-fold some of those negative externalities were baked into existing institutions or don't directly effect them, and the "culture wars" in the US cause people to take up positions that don't make any rational sense in their worldview. You can make really good conservative arguments for say fighting climate change as it could upend traditional social order, but partisan polarization has made it an issue of "the other side" so mainstream conservatives aren't making those arguments IMHO.