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SteelHands · 61-69, M
Referring to one or the other as in some intrinsic way as right or wrong only polarizes the dialogue. When I hear someone refer to it in this way I feel some obligation to say that they should think about why they are using that word in connection with their social beliefs. To my best awareness these are things I understand about the extremes of either side of conservative and liberal beliefs.
Historically,
The [b]original[/b] definition used to be that conservatives were in favor of established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas and held life liberty and [b]pursuit of happiness sacrosanct[/b].
While the [b]original[/b] definition of liberals was favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others.
[i]Wherease now[/i],
Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and the ideas and behavior of others with some attention to a collective societal standard of morality is called [b][i]conservatism[/i][/b].
Yet the favoring of unorthodox extremist dogmas such victim politics, speech censorship, paternalist micromanagement, unchecked growth of government, and claiming itself to be the populist majority is referred to as [b][i]liberalism[/i][/b].
Historically,
The [b]original[/b] definition used to be that conservatives were in favor of established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas and held life liberty and [b]pursuit of happiness sacrosanct[/b].
While the [b]original[/b] definition of liberals was favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others.
[i]Wherease now[/i],
Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and the ideas and behavior of others with some attention to a collective societal standard of morality is called [b][i]conservatism[/i][/b].
Yet the favoring of unorthodox extremist dogmas such victim politics, speech censorship, paternalist micromanagement, unchecked growth of government, and claiming itself to be the populist majority is referred to as [b][i]liberalism[/i][/b].