Conservative

Of or relating to Conservatism.

Pete Seeger, once accused of being a communist, countered “I say I’m more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

Many modern conservatives stand for virtues such as small government, fiscal responsibility, and non-intrusiveness in the lives of private citizens. Many conservatives are frankly appalled by the co-opting of the term "conservative" by religious and right-wing extremists who would prefer to see the government enlarged to massive proportions, at the expense of the public debt, to enforce rigid laws of morality which the government has no business interfering in.