So, conservatives generally believe people are bad and need to be controlled by tradition and authority, while liberals believe people are naturally good and are corrupted by tradition and authority. So, again I tap into…
From Encyclopedia Britannica on Conservatives
Conservatism is as much a matter of temperament as of doctrine. It may sometimes even accompany left-wing politics or economics—as it did, for example, in the late 1980s, when hard-line communists in the Soviet Union were often referred to as “conservatives.” Typically, however, the conservative temperament displays two characteristics that are scarcely compatible with communism. The first is a distrust of human nature, rootlessness (social disconnectedness), and untested innovations, together with a corresponding trust in unbroken historical continuityand in the traditional frameworks for conducting human affairs. Such frameworks may be political, cultural, or religious, or they may have no abstract or institutional expression at all.
The second characteristic of the conservative temperament, which is closely related to the first, is an aversion to abstract argument and theorizing. Attempts by philosophers and revolutionaries to plan society in advance, using political principles purportedly derived from reason alone, are misguided and likely to end in disaster, conservatives say. In this respect the conservative temperament contrasts markedly with that of the liberal. Whereas the liberal consciously articulates abstract theories, the conservative instinctively embraces concrete traditions. For just this reason, many authorities on conservatism have been led to deny that it is a genuine ideology, regarding it instead as a relatively inarticulate state of mind. Whatever the merits of this view, it remains true that the best insights of conservatism seldom have been developed into sustained theoretical works comparable to those of liberalism and radicalism.
Ah, so, as I have written elsewhere, ‘liberals consciously articulate abstract theory’ while the ‘conservative instinctively embraces concrete traditions’. To me this is then really about alternative natural states of being. I mean we don’t come to think either of these two ways rather we are born to it, it is in our DNA our internal construction which becomes our way of seeing and doing in the world and so our world view. And they have distinct though not discreet attributes which our mind and body follows. Conservatives and liberals then are not made, they are born.