Conservatives

Traditional Hierarchies are always based upon a past, usually a failed past.  Social evolution  never end and periodically when the social structure and the social environment no longer  match change will happen whether we wanted it to or not. If we are  not organized to be lead the direction of the change some one else will.

 

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative”. ― John Stuart Mill

While real Conservatives are certainly grounded in history, they fail to understand the world around them, thus they hang on to a decaying empire.

Fascism is not conservative as they believe fantasy not history, thus irrational and doomed to fail.

Nationalism is the 'identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

In today’s world Democrats represent a time which has past, Republicans a time that never was and not based on anything empirically real.

Economic liberalism is a political and economic philosophy based on strong support for a market economy and private property in the means of production.

 

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. ... Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free trade and free markets.

 

Neoliberals favoring policies that promote free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.

 

Neoconservatives put their emphasis on free-market capitalism and an interventionist foreign policy.

 

Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production and democratic control or workers' self-management of enterprises.

 

Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. To end injustice and inequality, by attacking oppression, exploitation and discrimination.  In the 21st century, a movement that identifies as progressive is a social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of social protests movements, social reforms, collective and joint political actions to meet those goals.