Never does it say that conservativism is pacifist or that it is passive.
That could largely depend on the person, or persons (group). I for one am conservative but fight back when I see something wrong - my threshold for chaos and disharmony are high. Not all conservatives do, we highly price order and abhor violence. The reason for being mistaken with weakness. But the greatest asset of a conservative is we are sure of our beliefs and unlike liberals do not sway with the winds of fashion of the times (say liberals with communism and Marxism).
As well written in the Stanford article:
"Conservatism in a broad sense, as a social attitude, has always existed"
Conservatism is a living tradition, and because it is living and a tradition it inherits the invaluable experience whose anchor of wisdom is the entire experience of the human race and at the same time adapts rationally to the changing landscape of society and technology, it is living.
That alone makes conservatism a bedrock foundation to be a tent for many compatible ideologies, good ones at that share values that human experience has found to be essential to man: respect individual liberty, property rights, freedom of expression, order and family (among others), and importantly belief in God (ultimate accountability through hierarchy).
That's not what conservativism is or means. From either a crowd sourced definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
Or from a more nuanced definition from an academic institution: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/
Never does it say that conservativism is pacifist or that it is passive. That could largely depend on the person, or persons (group). I for one am conservative but fight back when I see something wrong - my threshold for chaos and disharmony are high. Not all conservatives do, we highly price order and abhor violence. The reason for being mistaken with weakness. But the greatest asset of a conservative is we are sure of our beliefs and unlike liberals do not sway with the winds of fashion of the times (say liberals with communism and Marxism).
As well written in the Stanford article: "Conservatism in a broad sense, as a social attitude, has always existed"
Conservatism is a living tradition, and because it is living and a tradition it inherits the invaluable experience whose anchor of wisdom is the entire experience of the human race and at the same time adapts rationally to the changing landscape of society and technology, it is living.
That alone makes conservatism a bedrock foundation to be a tent for many compatible ideologies, good ones at that share values that human experience has found to be essential to man: respect individual liberty, property rights, freedom of expression, order and family (among others), and importantly belief in God (ultimate accountability through hierarchy).
My 2 cents 🙂