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Originally Posted by balefire88
Tell MLK Jr. that he did not win against conservative ideals.
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Well... He didn't. He came out of the dugout, pointed over the left-field wall, and hit a very respectable double. Tragically, he was taken out of the game before his next turn at bat. But the game's not over, and won't be for decades, if it ever is. But, he knew that would happen, too. I don't think he'd look at the current state of affairs in race relations--improved though they unquestionably are since his day--and say he "won".
Nonetheless, I generally agree with the OP notion that, over time, things get more liberal. Times change toward the permissive. That certainly seems to be the case.
I'd say that the most strict definition of "conservative" means something like "preserving the status quo, or the state of things in an idealized past time." By definition, as the times change as they inevitably do, that attitude loses.
This is not to say that there aren't current-day "conservatives" who are very in tune with the world as it is now, and operate very clearly inside the current state of affairs.