If conservatism is so great, why are most people seriously involved in studying and dealing with social issues liberals?
Conservatives believe it is impossible to define and control the considerations relevant to social life accurately enough to make a technological approach to society possible. Accordingly, they reject efforts to divide human affairs into compartments to be dealt with by experts as part of an overall plan for promoting comprehensive goals like equality and prosperity. Academic and other policy experts are defined as such by their participation in such efforts. It would be surprising if they did not prefer perspectives that give free rein to them, such as welfare-state liberalism, over perspectives that are suspicious of them.
