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"[W.E.B. Du Havel] understood the nature and logic of the Conservative Association well enough, certainly. It was an old and familiar phenomenon, after all, as ancient as any political formation in human affairs. A clique of people with a very prestigious and luxurious position in a given society, who reacted to anything which might conceivably discommode them with outrage and indignation -- as if their own privileges and creature comforts resulted from laws of nature equal in stature to the principles of physics. Very fat pigs in a very plentifully supplied trough, basically, who attempted to dignify their full stomachs by oinking the word 'conservative.'" -- from the novel Crown of Slaves by David Weber & Eric Flint, Baen Books, 2003 (ISBN: 0-7434-7148-2) [thanks to fidhle for emailing me this]