Is conservatism compatible with democracy? Why/Why not?

Is conservatism compatible with democracy? Why/Why not?

Conservatism is required for democracy

How come?

Would you like to clarify why it could be considered incompatible with democracy? That would make it easier for me to give you an answer.

Democracy works best with an ignorant mass.

For example if the conservative values do not align with the values of democracy, such as equal rights.

Because liberals turn democracies into communist regimes

Democracy should be understood as an ideology first, a method second.

As a method it can be used to achieve either progressive, moderate, reactionary, or traditionalist goals. Maybe even some that seem utopian at years of distance from the future. Democracy is a messy, beautiful thing that can be used to serve the goals of any and any interest group, including you and yours.

Old conservatives, which would have argued for inequal political rights, were pretty openly anti-democratic. It's not a question whether something that is opposed to democracy is incompatible with it.
Contemporary conservatism accepts equal political rights and democracy. It is because of that that it's compatible with them.

Thank you, could you clarify what you mean with "old conservatives" and contemporary ones?

Isn't democracy all about allowing the coexistence of different political philosophies in the society such as conservatism and liberalism?

That sort of depends on the country, but in the beginning of the 19th century, conservatives primarily defended the old order, arguing for monarchism, nobility, limiting political rights and state control over the economy (they were connected with mercantilism and cameralism). In time, they switched to representing the capitalists and the middle class. Those conservative parties that connected themselves with the rich and the middle class changed the ideology partly through the influence of liberalism (centralization, free trade, political rights) and partly because of their own class interests (census-limited suffrage, opposition to government interference in the economy). In some countries, they retained some authoritarian tendencies toward unelected heads of state (somewhere monarchism, somewhere dictatorship), and somewhere they were republicans. That depended on the country. Anyway, that fissure between conservative parties was part of the reason early 20th century politics was such a clusterfuck (the other reasons being socialists, fascists and political violence). In time, old conservatives died out, new conservative parties dropped their authoritarian schtick and became republicans supporting universal suffrage, and today they're just neoliberals with more affinity toward religion and less affinity toward homosexuality and such things.

I'm convinced the reason people post this kind of low-tier shitposts is because they get a boner from someone telling them they're retarded. You're retarded, you dirty sluts.

It is the actual problem is democracy and the ever more extreme and totalitarian views of our politics.

It's liberalism that's not compatible with democracy. Please note that outside of social media meme space, liberalism doesn't have anything to do with the left. Liberals are individualists who preach about personal responsibility and unregulated markets.

Sounds like an American thing to say.
Also, Communism is a good thing.

Because a lot of people are conservative. If they didn't get represented, it wouldn't be democratic.

Good post.

Equal rights is not a good thing.

I would say totalitarianism.

Eduacte yourself lefty.

Conservatism doesn't even exist in the US. It can't. We never had any sort of ancien regime to preserve. Conservatism, as we know it, is just a coalition of managerial state liberals who are disaffected with the Dems for whatever reason, oligarchic grifters, religious apocalyptic zealots, libertarians, racists and white nationalists, and "constitutionalists" who haven't done the necessary reading to understand the "Founders' intent," as though that were a univocal thing.

But conservative, they are not. There is no monarchy, no church, no overarching, supranational institution for them to fight for, and any that might exist, they reject in favor of their particular brand of ideology.

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Democracy wouldnt work out without either the left or right. If the right was gone, it'd delve into totalitarian communism, if the left was gone, it'd delve into totalitarian fascism.