The difference between liberal and conservative
Not going by actual word definitions but by political characteristics, there is a big difference between liberal and conservative mindsets. I'm intentionally not using Democrat and Republican because while most Democrats are liberals, there are some who are more conservative, or more traditional Democrat. Likewise, while most Republicans claim to be conservative, there are Republicans who are liberal. A big example are many of those in the Utah state legislature. There is a lot of legislation that is being pushed that is not conservative in nature, but I'll get to that. The big difference between conservative and liberal is freedom. I expect most liberals will want to disagree with that and say they believe in freedom, but here is my reasoning. Where does freedom come from? Is freedom our ability to choose what we are going to do and say? Or does freedom come from the government telling us what we can do and say? The conservative mindset wants to minimal government ...