What is a conservative?

Big shitstorm over at Ace about the fake story of racism amongst some Catholic kids.  BTW, I cannot link to stuff from that blog lately, or from other blogs.  I am wondering if something is blocking that.

Anyway, the discussion seems to be about who is a real conservative or not.  I refer to conservatives as "so-called" conservatives because I wonder if there is any such animal in this country anymore.  For that matter, maybe no conservatives exist in the Western world anymore.

The language shifts so much, who knows what words really mean?  The word "gay" used to mean happy.  Now it means homosexuality.  That shift seems to have come after 1970.  I have a video that shows the usage of the word in the former way, and it was a TV show made at that time.

Was just looking at the pledge of allegiance story.  Some Latino dude wants to change the pledge, and the guy isn't even a citizen.  Heck, even George H. W. Bush ( POTUS 41) recited the pledge as an admonishment towards his opponent in the election of 1988.  It was not well-taken then, but at least he supported the pledge.  One might wonder how much longer the pledge will last, or for that matter, the rest of the country will last?  All of this has happened during so-called conservative periods as well as liberal periods of recent history.  If POTUS 41 was still alive, would he agree with the Latino guy?  He did vote for Hillary even though he did seem concerned about her husband's character at one time.  The point---even so-called conservatives are as changeable as the wind.  What is conservative about that?

Some folks are asking some questions.  Maybe some good will come out of it.  Can conservatism be made to mean something again, or will it mean nothing after all?