Conservative
Conservative adjective - Tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions.
Usage example: conservative baseball fans consider the new ballpark too modern-looking and plain ugly
Progressive is an antonym for conservative in topics: traditional, traditionalist, moderate, cautious.
Progressive
Progressive adjective - Not bound by traditional ways or beliefs.
Usage example: a socially progressive community, it was the first to provide for the public education of girls
Both words in one sentence
- In his own words, being a vampire transcends any notion of human identity politics, so its inapplicable to classify him as either conservative or progressive.
Source: No Party Given -
Since being a vampire transcends any notion of human politic identities in his own words, its pretty impossible to classify him as conservative or progressive.
Source: Comic Book / Crimson - The truth is that conservative and progressive, capitalist and communist, statism and individualism, and any number of others are each only individual axes of the polical spectrum.
Source: Analysis / The Horseshoe Effect
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