This makes me sick. As staunch conservatives, you successfully
attacked a dictionary definition. Congratulations! As an American
liberal, I find it nauseating for two political ideologies, which are
not necessarily opposites, to attack each other like that. Were you
aware that liberal was once thought of as being in favor of laissez
fairee economics (that's basically leave it be capitalism for those of
you that didn't know), equality, and freedom. As far as I am aware, at
least the last two still apply. Both liberals and conservatives alike
are working towards the common goal of keeping the big government off
of the little people's backs. We may work at it in different ways, but
the ultimate goal is the same. Conservatives tend to see this
difference in taxes which they believe suppress individual freedom
(quite likely so). Liberals tend to see this difference in restrictive
measures such as the Patriot Act, which eerily resembles the search and
seizure policies of the USSR. Both the USSR policies and the Patriot
acts were written as protective measures from both outer and inner
forces.

Liberals are painted as communists and Conservatives are painted as
Nazis. Neither is true. We are ALL working for the betterment of our
societies, just in different ways. Maybe we should stop fighting each
other and work together to achieve this common goal-

Here are two definitions of liberal and conservative. I'll leave it to
you to guess which is which. Regardless of what meaning you have
imposed on these two words, maybe it would be good to take a look back
and see what they truly stand for.


1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style

1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or
authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and
tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.

"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he
ever receive either." - Benjamin Franklin