Are Conservatives (in the West) on the wrong side of history?

  Of all the oft-repeated myths regarding Conservatives, this one, in my opinion, is just the silliest. Yet I hear it all the time. History, just like evolution, has no specified direction. There is no end goal. Yes, I understand that the concept comes from the Hegelian understanding of history, but this is so vague in that it can be interpreted in any way that lines up with the confirmation bias of the proponent. For Hegel, the Prussian state was the ideal that history was marching towards; for Left Hegelians, it was the classless society (or a version thereof), and for Nazis, it was a Third Reich with Lebensraum.

History is not marching to a preordained beat as though it was intentionally designed to do so. File this wishful thinking. Events happen, and we, as a society and a civilization, respond to them. Perceived trajectories are constantly in a state of flux.