Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
It's sort of a feature of right leaning Americans that they see their culture (well usually the imaginary culture of 30 years before) as being the finished article. That human culture is not under constant change.

Actually it's all conservatives. That's why it's such a contradiction of being obsessed with the past, yet totally ahistorical.
Baron Hailsham:

the role of Conservatism is not to oppose all change but to resist and balance the volatility of current political fads and ideology, and to defend a middle position that enshrines a slowly-changing organic humane traditionalism.