Is Conservatism Bad?

I've grown disillusioned with that term, especially when considering the broad scale failure of conservative political thought and conservative political movements in the United States. I'm actually not that unhappy to no longer identify as a conservative so to speak. There are many things in which I think conservatism is quite warranted. But what has hurt me the most financially has been financial conservatism. It's almost always come from the times in which I rejected that conservative impulse.