re: The definition of the word "conservative"

you understand that during the french revolution "conservatives" were the ones who wanted to keep the monarchy in france?

Conservative is a relative term and you can't look at different time periods and say that Today's conservatives have this issue because they supported this in 1980, this in 1940, the french conservatives supported this in 1790, etc.

I don't like the terms conservative and liberal that much and this one of those reasons. It is a relative term that changes over time. A libertarian who would be considered very socially liberal but economically conservative were the liberals back in the 70s and 80s.

Look at people's stance on the issues not if the label themselves conservative liberal, progressive, libertarian, etc.