re: #218 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Just by happenstance, I’ve been reading some work by people who were, in their time, conservative. So I feel the need to remind us all again, that the term “conservative” was hijacked by those humorless radicals now trying to stamp out freedom of thought et al., and they bear no resemblance to the real thing.

How is that different than Edmond Burke opining after monarchies started falling in Europe, the best way to oppose democracy would be to manipulate it through capitalism to subvert the will of voters?