Biography

Conservative attitudes, positions and behavior emphasize and prioritize stability and safety. If it’s not really broken, it’s not really urgent to fix it. Look before you leap. While changes may recommend themselves, there are always transient implemention costs, and not infrequently there are losses & losers, and even permanent drawbacks & downsides.

Liberal is not a strong or accurate antonym of Conservative. The Progressive associate of Liberalism (typically seen as a one hypenated word) makes more of a specialty of Change (sometimes verging to ‘change for the sake of change’). Liberal politics, with its emphasis on the Person and Individual, is allied with Conservatives in prioritizing generalized ‘Bill of Rights’ factors … while some Progressive threads are less so.
(and ultimately, Politics) are reflections of caution and safety.

Political Conservatism as we know it emerged as a concept from the French Revolution, and somewhat coincidentally but ultimately very significantly, from the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.

Superhuman emergency strength is most often illustrated in the lifting of automobiles off victims pinned underneath, by a rescuer who is not a powerful person, and not athletic. The lesson taken & offered is, that when it is really needed, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary strength – which is not in itself a remarkable, much less Supernatural – assertion.  In the nowadays classic example of lifting a car, it is however underreported that cars have springs, and that normal strength is sufficient to ‘lift’ the car several inches, at least, and that the top of a car is typically rounded, and that when upside down it is rather easy to rock it back & forth quite a bit.  Just shifting the car like this, will often suffice to pull someone out from under it.