They are invariably paternalist, usually religious and have swallowed altruism whole and cannot consequently take an ethical moral stand against its corollary and political expression of Welfare.
Being Christian such Conservatives have authoritarian impulses and will lean to totalitarian positions on such things as drugs prohibition and anti abortion and fully endorse strict curbs on the free market such as taxation and oppressive regulation, instigate vast state infrastructure programmes, defend socialized healthcare, anti trust measures, the creation of numberless government industry watchdogs quangoes, oppose mergers and acquisitions, stifle business, rein it in and bolster the mixed economy fully convinced they are doing God's work protecting the poor and vulnerable from unchecked rampant capitalism.
This is typical leftist Conservatism, its near universal orthodoxy which in all essentials is indistinguishable form leftist socialist statism.
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