Why I'm not a conservative

I certainly lean more to the right, but I'm not a conservative. This is a generality but generally most conservatives that I've met can sometimes be focused on a time in the past that will never happen again. First off, they over romanticize the past (like everyone does when it comes to nostalgia) and forget about the reasons why it was terrible. Growing up I often saw people on the right talk about the "good old days' of the 1950's, where there was no such thing as abortion, gay marriage, out of wedlock births. Where tv shows were clean and life was 100% perfect and everything was wonderful. It's nonsense of course-the 1950's were hardly a conservative wonderland but even if they were, it's impossible to go back to the past.

Regardless of you (generic usage of the word) stomping your feet, holding your breath till you pass out, crying and screaming,we will not be going back to the 1950's, 1960's, 1980's, or 2000's, and you probably don't want to. Conservatives place much too high a value on tradition without pausing to think if that tradition is even worth keeping.

FA Hayek, in his brilliant essay "Why I am not a conservative" said that one of the fundamental problems with conservatives is that they fear change. He was exactly right. He also makes the brilliant point that conservatives don't care about government power as long as the government is conservative. He's exactly right about that too. Hence why a conservative supreme court would curtail abortion rights, gay rights, and give more power to Donald Trump and his idiotic plans for a border wall. The border wall is a perfect example of why I'm not a conservative. Big government programs are great as long as they are conservative ones.