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This is the longplay version. If you can stay awake til the end, it will make sense. Speaking of politicians: Liberals want the government to make your life choices for you and to regulate the country as much as possible. Their method is to tax productivity and pursue social goals. Conservatives believe in letting people live their lives with as little government interference as possible. They trust capitalism, and free market supply and demand to regulate life in the country. Those are the definitions. The facts are that both want to accumulate power, money and influence for themselves while letting the needs of the country come last. To answer those who rate this negatively: reality usually differs from textbook theory. This is just a definition. Not a treatise on the merits of either philosophy because hypocrisy is the trademark of politics. BTW- Tinkering with the various social and religious groups has become a favorite, divisive game for both groups. This is merely a strategy to tilt the scales. Their sincerity should be measured by their actions and inactions. Talk is cheap.
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Conservative theory, in a nutshell, represents restraint and traditional attitudes in social and economic issues. Liberal theory, in a nutshell, represents progress and egalitarian attitudes in social and economic issues.
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Perhaps this is trite, but for me, it comes down to this: A Liberal believes that every human being has the right to a meal, whereas a Conservative believes in the responsibility to pay for it. That definition has gone a little funny since the recent run of defecit spending, but I think the ship will right itself again someday (probably after the Dems have won back the White House).
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It depends on what area of life. Social Conservatives belive in traditional family values. Social Liberals exist for no other reason then to try to destroy the family. Fiscal Conservatives belive in not taking out debt Fiscal Liberals think debt is not a problem. There arn't that many fiscal liberals left save for Bush and Co. Humanitarian Conservatives belive that somehow the free-market magically takes care of all the world's problems. They also think that the cause of all the country's problems are the courts. Humanitarian Liberals belive that people should be provided their basic needs by the government if necessary. Foriegn policy conservatives belive that we should take out any nation that meets our displeasure. Foriegn policy liberals think that we can negotiate with terrorists and presidents of third world nations that deny the holicaust. Becuase somehow they belive these people to be halfway rational. So I'm a weird meshing of Liberal and conservative cause I'm certainly a social conservative but I'm a bit more liberal on things like health care. Thats what its like to be an Indiana Democrat.
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HOnestly I see Conservatives as having a more perspective of how things are, and the liberal perspective is often how things should be with a much more "ideal" view of things but often missing the pragmatic perspective. It is things like: " Stop everyone from using cars and close the factories to keep the planet from warming" vs the Conservative side saying: " lets make sure that global warming actually exists before we outlaw cars." It is truly Idealistic versus realistic from my point of view, which is from the conservative side. I don't think all Liberal minded people are bad or anything, especially true liberals compared to those in government who use liberal ideas to push radical socialist agendas. There is a huge difference, and I actually feel like the true liberal is being used by their politicians even more than the conservative politicians use their base.
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I think they both just push agenda. I don't like lumping people into groups. You can be both "conservative" and "liberal" on different things. If you look at a guy like Ron Paul. He's a constitutionalist that has many liberal supports as well as many conservative supporters. It's b/c he doesn't fit in any mold. He simply adheres to the constitution and talks about how our founding fathers wanted this country to be about.
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