Rather than demonizing your fellow person, perhaps it would be wise to study up on the many various political philosophies.
Both "liberal" and "conservative" mean basically nothing. A "liberal" government can mean laissez faire economics, or it could mean socialist state controlled economics. The two are opposing concepts. "Liberal" democracies can have "conservative" policies, laws, and values. Conservative can mean traditionalist, or it can mean moderate, or it can mean reactionary, but today it can also mean someone advocating policy change towards libertarianism. Such "conservatives" have wildly opposing values. A communist could be socially conservative (historically, most are), and a libertarian can be politically conservative.
These words are all context-based, and are frequently misused. Today, they have almost no meaning.
The political extremes are anarchism and communism, libertarianism and fascism. Those are hard concepts. "Liberal" and "conservative" are not.
2006-12-30
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