Liberal Democracy

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As opposed to conservative democracy, Marxism, and Fascism.

Article about conservative democracy: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/conservative-democracy. From the perspective of growth mindset vs fixed mindset, conservative democracy appears to have a strong component of fixed mindset concepts, 3 of the 5 are tradition, nationalism, and religion. These are all present in liberal democracy, but perhaps in more mild forms, thus contributing more to the possibility of evolution and change.

It seems that the essence of liberal democracy vs conservative democracy lies in the growth mindset vs fixed mindset orientation. All politicized issues, such as immigration, religion, nationalism, etc - seem to arise from this core distinction. Given that the only constant is change - how does one reconcile this universal principle with conservatism? It seems conservatism seems to deny this proposition - in its skepticism of abstract, universal systems.

Denial of 'universal rights of man' seems problematic in the conservative democracy viewpoint. Thus, conservatives do not like, for example, the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights'?