disadvantage of conservatism
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One of the biggest tenets of conservatism is wanting to maintain the status-quo. Don’t rock the boat if things are going well, once you change things around you can have a totally new paradigm with unintended consequences that you hadn’t foreseen prior. Being conservative means that you’re aiming to preserve the way things are now. If things truly need to change, that change should and will come from individuals, families and communities and definitely, DEFINITELY should not come by using the government to legislate and enforce that change.
This can be good in some respects. For example I don’t think anyone’s ever said anything bad about being fiscally conservative, since most people are with their own money. Conservatism is good when you like the status quo, or aren’t convinced of the benefits of changing it. Conservatism is disadvantageous when you don’t like the status quo. As a couple of examples :
Racism : To me this is one of the biggest ones that the government had to step in over. When we started this country, the status quo was slavery. Even the people who wrote the constitution were using slaves. The South gets vilified for wanting to hold onto them a little longer, but everyone was using and benefiting from them. Would we have all come to our senses eventually and ended slavery willfully without the government stepping in? Maybe. Probably. But it would’ve taken a lot longer, and that may not seem like a big deal for many people, but I can guarantee for slaves every day we conserved that system was one day too many. Same goes for every step moving forward (interracial marriage, segregated schools and work places, anti-discrimination laws). The government had to step in because we felt that rewarding some by letting them maintain their status-quo was punishing others under the same system.
Sexism : Another huge one. Roughly half the population of our country is female, and for the first 144 years half our country couldn’t vote. To me that’s a big disadvantage of conservatism. Under that same principle women were denied opportunities in political office, the workplace, education, and even now healthcare. Under conservatism we would’ve similarly maintained the status-quo of the sexual assault culture, where women don’t feel they can speak out about something that happens to 1 in 5(6?) women. That doesn’t seem like a good system to conserve.
Environment : This is a tricky one, because it’s hard to say which conservatism is trying to conserve. Our nature to keep innovating and exploiting the environment? Because we’re definitely not conserving our environment. Many conservatives at the time were against stepping in to regulate CFCs that were destroying the ozone because it might disrupt the economy. Having the government step in and mandate their discontinuation likely prevented hundreds of millions of cases of skin cancer and glaucoma and major agricultural catastrophes, especially since the major CFC producers were spreading disinformation about them at the time. Same goes for climate change today. True conservatism would try and figure out a solution to “conserving” our environment and climate that our agriculture-based society has thrived under for thousands of years, instead we’re “conserving” a fossil fuel based economy, discounting the future, and hoping individuals and the market figures it out instead of laying out a path and mandating changes to achieve a sustainable future. Personally, I have little confidence in our ability to address problems as complex as climate change/ozone depletion when we work as individuals and fragmented communities, rather than a national/global collective (the scale at which these problems arise).
TLDR : Protecting a status-quo that has historically discriminated against minorities and women; relying on individuals/communities/market to come up with a solution to complex problems, even in cases where they have shown that they haven’t, and on a time frame that will avoid significant negative impacts to future/current generations.