I keep hearing how "we need a viable conservative party." Why? What for?

[Hortensis]

39. You posted about any conservative party at all. Conservatism

is not a movement that can pass, it's a deeply embedded way of seeing and reacting to the world, literally genetically coded and enhanced by culture/environment from childhood on. An MRI of the brain can often reveal whether a person is liberal or conservative just by which areas are comparatively larger and smaller, but behavioral differences make orientation already discernible in young children.

Regarding representative government, roughly half (possibly more) of humanity are overall conservative and they're not changing. Most of the rest are overall liberal. We have far more in common than otherwise, but...those differences!

Speaking of environment, the peoples and cultures of hot climates (plus others that make survival difficult) are overall more conservative than those of temperate climates. A quick glance at political maps of our nation and the globe can confirm this. A thought for the next time the subject of global warming and climate disasters comes to mind. It's not the kind of movement you referred to, but America's hot regions are expanding.