Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

National Alliance (, AN ) was a conservative political party in Italy.

Gianfranco Fini, a moderniser who sees Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron as models, impressed an ambitious political line to the party, combining the pillars of conservative ideology like security, family values and patriotism with a progressive approach in other areas such as stem cell research and supporting voting rights for legal aliens.

The school in Weimar experienced political pressure from conservative circles in Thuringian politics, increasingly so after 1923 as political tension rose.

After the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, a school of industrial design with teachers and staff less antagonistic to the conservative political regime remained in Weimar.

During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".

The political camp became divided by supporters of O ' Higgins, Carrera, liberal Pipiolos and conservative Pelucones, being the two last the main movements that prevailed and absorbed the rest.

The political parties with the largest representation in the current Chilean Congress are the centrist Christian Democrat Party and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Demócrata Independiente ).

The Christian Social Union of Bavaria () is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

Prior to this, his political views had been conservative.

In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.

Until the two World Wars, in most European countries the political class was formed by conservative liberals, from Germany to Italy.

However in some nations where the elites were able to mobilize popular support for conservative parties, longer periods of political stability were achieved.

Chile's conservative party, the National Party disbanded in 1973 following a military coup and did not re-emerge as a political force following the subsequent return to democracy.

While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".

Psychologist Felicia Pratto and her colleagues have found evidence to support the idea that a high Social Dominance Orientation ( SDO ) is strongly correlated with conservative political views, and opposition to social engineering to promote equality, though Pratto's findings have been highly controversial.

They were refuted in this claim by David J. Schneider, who wrote that " correlations between prejudice and political conservative are reduced virtually to zero when controls for SDO are instituted ".

* Recent conservative political thought: American perspectives / Russell G.

Elsewhere, but lost according to conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro out to Howie Mandel when producer Bruce Paltrow learned Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan.

The Dolchstoß was a central image in propaganda produced by the many right-wing and traditionally conservative political parties that sprang up in the early days of the Weimar Republic, including Hitler's NSDAP.

A detailed analysis of voting demographics revealed that Perot's support drew heavily from across the political spectrum, with 20 % of his votes coming from self-described liberals, 27 % from self-described conservatives, and 53 % coming from self-described moderates.

A member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Chomsky is a self-described Anarcho-Syndicalist, a position which he sees as the appropriate application of classical liberal political theory to contemporary industrial society: " Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism ; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.

The university's main student-run political publication is the Washington University Political Review ( nicknamed " WUPR "), a self-described " multipartisan " monthly magazine.

Neal A. Boortz, Jr. ( born April 6, 1945 ) is an American radio host, author, and self-described libertarian political commentator.

Citizens for a Sound Economy ( CSE ) ( 1984 – 2004 ) was a conservative political group operating in the United States, whose self-described mission was " to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation.

The political idea of an Emperor in the West to match the Emperor in the East continued after the Western Roman Empire's collapse ; it was revived by the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 ; the self-described Holy Roman Empire ruled over central Europe until 1806.

The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described " conservative anarchist " who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s.

McDermott is a self-described atheist who says that his political leanings lie somewhere between ultra-conservative and the radical left " depending on the time of day ".

Founded in 1991 as the Washington Hemp Expo, a self-described " humble gathering of stoners " attended by only 500 people, and renamed the following year as Hempfest, it has grown into a 3-day annual political rally, concert, and arts and crafts fair with attendance typically over 250, 000.

Known for his moderate political views, he is a self-described liberal democrat even though the Bharatiya Janata Party is often described as a right-wing nationalist organization.

In the recording Schiller meets with a pair of self-described Muslims who claim to wish to donate money to NPR because they approve of the political slant of its coverage.

A self-described political junkie, Thompson fixes his sights early on McGovern as the candidate to whom he will attach himself.

As a self-described conservative alternative to the AARP USA Next has often received criticism for its political orientation and associations.

A self-described moderate, ' One Nation ' Tory, his views found little favour with Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, and he came to resent his lack of promotion in parliament, never progressing beyond being PPS at the Foreign Office, and dubbing his own political career " A study in failure ", borrowing the subtitle of his Churchill biography.

Most Cuban exiles in the United States are both legally and self-described political refugees.

Although he was a self-described follower of Józef Piłsudski ( Piłsudczyk ), Kaczorowski choose during his retirement to not get involved in any partisan nor strictly political activity.

André Arthur is a self-described libertarian, and his political views are generally in line with the libertarian ideology.

After the general election, disgruntled right-winger and ex-United Future MP Marc Alexander also voiced repeated criticisms of his former colleagues, in his " Marc My Words " political opinion column for Scoop, a New Zealand news website.

Throughout his entire military career, he was considered to be a strict disciplinarian, a political right-winger, and even a militarist.