08-31-2008, 11:49 AM
Likalizard,
You have to look at terms like "liberal" and “conservative” in a relative fashion depending on the time in history and it is relative to the government.
Back in the 1700s Washington, Jefferson, Thomas Payne et al were considered liberal revolutionaries.
People that hold true to those beliefs today are considered conservative.
For they want to conserve these ideas.
The moniker Libertarian also can have more than one connotation.
One can be a left leaning libertarian or a right leaning libertarian.
I suspect many folk her are one or the other. What is most wonderful about humanity is that no two people agree on all issues.