I mean, we did also end up in the timeline, where conserving the planet Earth is somehow the progressive stance, even though the Earth was kind of important in the past, too. So, I think it’s rather that these labels are nonsense, and conservatives just allude to a (fictional) past when it fits their preferred narrative.
The most important tenet of conservatism is to just assume the past is what you think it was.
The present too, for that matter
I mean, we did also end up in the timeline, where conserving the planet Earth is somehow the progressive stance, even though the Earth was kind of important in the past, too. So, I think it’s rather that these labels are nonsense, and conservatives just allude to a (fictional) past when it fits their preferred narrative.
And that the past was static, eternally unchanging.