Different conservative groups "all disagree about who should be in charge, but they all agree that some people are ordained to rule, and that any 'artificial' attempt to overturn the 'natural' order throws society into chaos." — @pluralistic

(FWIW, I got my go-to definition of conservatism from an essay by Phil Agre: "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.")

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@danfuzz @pluralistic The reason we have these "unnatural" mechanisms to define who is in power (which we loosely call "Democracy" is because of millennia of these types of people imposing that "natural order" and getting others to kill each other when they couldn't decide who was right.

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