bogarde73 wrote on Dec 5^th, 2015 at 3:11pm:


You might be right, Bogie, but conservatism as a political model is about how laws and regulations should be changed (or left alone).

Libertarianism, on the other hand, seeks to get rid of laws and regulations altogether. Libertarianism is an amazingly flexible set of ideas. Anarchists, the US Bible Belt, the Tea Party, and Reagan and Thatcher - there is something compelling about a society without laws. For many, it's utopia.

But this is not conservatism, even if these ideas are shared by some on the far-right. Conservatism favours strong government and a tight rule of law.