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 Liberals and conservatives are practically the same thing (1)

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Liberals and conservatives are practically the same thing

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They ARE "practically the same thing". There are just more colors and genders and religions accepted by the liberals, it's in the name.

Conservative's are more "choosey", conservatively speaking. They are just more "picky" about who they accept as "friends". I would say, though they don't make the "claim", that liberals are actually following more closely that ancient liberal …. Jesus. ;-)

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What we call conservatives now were actually called liberals in the past, "classical liberals" to be precise. The monarchists used to called "conservatives" because they were in favour of maintaining the status quo. Indeed, conservatism's defining trait is a desire to maintain status quo, and thus one could say that the very essence of leftism is "progress" whereas the right is in favour of regression or stagnation.

But look at your average establishment "lib" in America, someone like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, they serve the exact same moneyed interests as the right, and the only ones who are going for any real meaningful change or ones like Bernie who is not even a liberal. As I said before, what we call conservatives today are actually liberals historically speaking, so what does "liberal" actually mean in a modern context? Slightly more liberal classical liberals.