Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I’m happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don’t see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.
Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?
Historically you would be called centrist, not conservative. Conservatism is a coherent political ideology and has always been regressive. Notably, the guy considered the father of modern conservatism was a monarchist who created the whole thing as a framework for an aristocracy to exist within democracy (which he predicted would sweep across Europe after the French revolution). So yeah, you’re not conservative unless you’re actively for putting power in the hands of the capitalists rather than the people.