Actually I am by definition a ‘liberal.’ Like the founders. We want liberty for all, reigned in by the lightest of tethers.
I hate defending the term ‘conservative.’ I don’t want things to be as of old. We learn, we improve, we (dare I use this verb) progress. In all of our gain, we must, in my opinion, fit our social infrastructure to our constitution and not the other way around. So we aren’t pure ‘progressives’ who have zero core and are thus easily fooled then ruled by smooth talking tyrants. We are ‘liberals’ because we are open to truly seeing what is going on and guarding our freedom for us and future generations. We can adapt but we don’t ‘fundamentally transform.’ We are called conservatives but we are more liberal than any leftist. The leftists and their Gullibles who follow them blindly can’t be open minded. They are shamed into only seeing one side of anything. Leftism is as far from freedom as you can get.
Yep, they want to control every aspect of our lives.
BTW, I think I have the best screen-name on FreeRepublic.
>>Actually I am by definition a ‘liberal.’ Like the founders. We want liberty for all, reigned in by the lightest of tethers.
>>I hate defending the term ‘conservative.’
I agree. Same here. I will never call a Progressive anything but that—or Communist. They do not deserve to be called “liberal” since they are anything but.
Actually it makes sense, since it’s all relative. I do want to “conserve” what was America, the greatness of its principles. And it was working a good deal for a good while. So “conservative” in that sense is not bad at all.
As for progressive, they do not mean as opposed to regressive, though that is a nice deception they want you to think. It’s a double entendre wherein the key meaning is “gradual”. They want gradual change so you won’t mind too much or notice.