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You built up your very own definition of the word while ignoring what any political conservative movement in the world actually does. You listened to someone's argument on the concept of a definition, an idea that was stapled to a word in your head, without actually looking at factual reality. What you describe is simply not what any conservative party anywhere does.
Starting with the idea that you are conserving something that runs well and not spending resource on frivolous nonsense that doesn't work - just look at everything a conservative party actually funds while blocking money for anything remotely humanitarian because they claim it doesn't work, or based on the slightest disagreement about a boundary, while being themselves the very reason it doesn't work.
Look at what is actually protected. And at who isn't, based on not giving too much to someone you don't think deserves it. Do those who already have all that deserve it?
Starting with your environmental conservationist sensibility and deducing (edit: typo) that you want to be a conservative is already super wild, it's antinomic. You think you protect something from greed and selfishness, but those who who block progress are the selfish ones who hoard everything out of greed, using "this doesn't deserve it" or "you can't prove this works" as an excuse to keep everything. You are not safeguarding anything, and there's zero place for environmental protection in any conservative party anywhere.
What would you call someone with the beliefs that they've mentioned then? I agree, I don't know of a current "conservative" political group/party that follows that idea anymore but what word better explains how they actually want things?
In the US? ... Obama? (In a very big nutshell) as long as you don't oppose stuff like the Dreamers and Obamacare (which you shouldn't under this definition)
By the way, I think this bit
Is the biggest discrepancy in each person's understanding. If things are good...for who? What if they're not? If they are for 51% of people, what about the other 49%?
If you understand some stuff is good for you and some stuff is very bad for everyone else, do you block everything?
If only your situation changes and nothing else, do you switch parties?
I agree. This person is a conservative. The other “conservatives” are just fascists who inherited the label and it no longer fits.
The conservative party has never stood for what this person is ascribing to them.