“Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world”. And that’s not an opinion, it’s a definition.

If you’re sceptical, read the whole article (by someone named Philip Agre, of whom I hadn’t previously heard). And if you happen to have conservative friends, forward it on. If they’re sufficiently aristocratic, they’ll quietly chuckle to themselves; if not then they might just question their own beliefs…