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The meanings of both big-L "Liberal" and big-C "Conservative" have become so polluted with least-common-denominator mass-media rhetoric as to have made the words useless except to mean "us" and "them" (or "good" and "evil") or vice-versa depending on the speaker. I know the second I encounter either word that what follows will not be in any way a serious discussion of political matters.
Let's use specific language instead of handy-dandy labels, shall we? For example, the two most popular political parties in the U.S. are an extremist proauthoritarian, procorporatist, and prochristianist party and a radical proauthoritarian, procorporatist, and prochristianist party. In that context, the difference between "liberals" and "conservatives" doesn't look like much.
