Conservatism, boiled down to its core belief, to its very heart, is simply the belief that a certain small group (usually white, afluent, monocultural, with highly homogeneous backgrounds) has the right to inflict violence on everyone else.

‘no they just want to go back to how things were and they’re slow to adapt’

Buddy. Friend. Pal. Mate. Companion. They’re literally still fuming about the French Revolution and the Paris Commune challenging the divine authority of kings. They want to make it so you don’t have any power and they have all of it.

No seriously. It’s Edmund Burke and his whole shtick. Everything else is just dress-up really. Caring about the rights of women and everything just to pit one group against the next. They’ll play the political game but really it’s just they’re yearning to return to hunting people for sport as the nobles they take themselves for.

Also, it’s so fucking easy to not be ableist and yet here you are doing it anyway, OP. Shameful really.