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Conservatives don't want anything to change. Time to get rid of them
The paradox of tolerance is that you can not have a tolerant society if you tolerate the intolerant.
Tolerance as a social contract fixes this. "We will tolerate you if you tolerate us." That keeps us from welcoming traitors.
The problem is that the more you fight change, the more you change things. Your movement becomes more and more focused on resisting change, and less focused on preserving any good qualities it once had. It's an inescapable bit of futility, hard coded into the human condition.
It's worse than that. Conservatives want everything to change. Back to the early 1800's.