What is your definition of Liberal and Conservative, and how did you form this perspective?

Answer 1

I'm to many am conservative. I don't think big government is to mine or anyone best interest. Teaching entitlements is a trap with a built in ceiling. This area has a wide moat around it. When you attempt to work your way off the entitlement leash you loss more benefits faster than you earn a new replacement wage.

For the entitled, you can never be given enough after all you are entitled - so you are always angry. The ones footing the bill are angry in part because the "entitled" aren't appreciative.

Liberals seem to think others will fix the problem. Who & How the problem will get fixed is never delt with. Liberals never think of the economics.

Answer 2

Conservatives -- Still believe that if you are working a 40 hour a week job, you can afford to live a basic middle-class life, and thus think that anyone who is not succeeding in this, must be failures because they are lazy, irresponsible, and unworthy. They also tend to hold the prosperity doctrine which suggests that those who are succeeding are loved and blessed by God, and those that are not, must be hated by God because of some internal flaw. They also tend to believe that they will imminently be in the top economic bracket, and thus can easily be persuaded to vote against their own economic interests in hopes of securing future economic interests.

Conservatives seem to view human nature very pessimistically, and also view work as drudgery that most people if they can will try and get away without doing.

Conservatives think that no science should ever be accepted until it has been completely proven, and this includes anthropogenic global warming. Thus they tend to think that we should not act until its proven. Sadly, it will be proven completely only after it is too late for us to do anything about it, and thus we will have already sewn the seeds of our own destruction.

Most conservatives tend to think that we should begin implementing Christian moral law into governmental law. They have forgotten the principle of freedom of religion, and that to impose ours on anyone else, violates this fundamental principle, and also leaves them open for someone else to do the same to them later.

Liberals- - generally understand that the math doesn't work. Adults working minimum wage jobs cannot make a decent living, and often need the assistance of welfare to be able to keep body and soul together, feed their families, and keep basic shelter over their heads. We understand that many of the poor people are not poor because they are lazy or irresponsible, and understand how many of them come from two parent homes, where both parents are working way over 40 hours a week, and still are failing to make ends meet.

It is because of this, that we support continued government help, and why we think that regulations should be in force to insist that businesses pay their workers truly living wages for the regional area that they are in. Furthermore, we believe, and rightly so, that if businesses actually paid enough for people to do better than they would on welfare, we will see a drastic number of people go off of welfare, and onto to meaningful labor.

Liberals tend to view human beings compassionately, and to believe that humans in their fundamental state, need and desire meaningful work, and will not shy away from it unless there is something deeply wrong on a physical basis.

Liberals tend to view a weighty amount of science, specifically in regards to global warming as enough to generate action. It is very unlikely that we are wrong about this, and the all to real possibility that the conservatives are wrong, means that we must begin to act now.

Liberals believe that we need to respect everyones religious beliefs, even if they are not our own.

Answer 3

The terms are legit terms. Liberal is any one who believes that the government should oversee most aspects of our lives. ie medical, social welfare, smaller military, etc., etc. Conservatives believe in smaller gov't, bigger military, less welfare (that means helping people do for themselves), less gov't intrusion (state make the laws not the federal gov't) etc. etc.
The way the terms are used now is to signify extreme left or extreme right which is incorrect. A person can be a Conservative Democrat like JFK or a Liberal Repubican like Schwarzenegger. We just call those people Moderates now.
But just know when people throw these terms around, they are using them incorrectly.

Answer 4

A conservative believes that the individual is responsible for himself and believes that giveaway programs destroy an individuals drive to improve his lot.

A liberal thinks the government owes him something and all he needs to do is sit on his laurels.

I formed opinion from listening to both sides.

Answer 5

Conservatives - believe in lower taxes, smaller government, states rights, free market economies, and individual responsibility

Liberals - government programs like welfare, economic redistribution, world government

Answer 6

My definition of Liberalism is that Liberals seek government solutions to personal problems.

My definition of Conservatism is that they don't.

I form this perspective daily.

Answer 7

Liberal= sloth,food stamps,government cheese,killing babies....
Conservative= Personal responsibility and individualism.

Answer 8

You already know the answer to your question. Each to his Own!

Answer 9

LIBERALS = LOVE FREEDOM AND THE USA

CONSERVATIVES = LOVE WAR AND BLOODSHED