Conservatism and Liberalism

A remarkable thing about the "conservative" vs "liberal" question is this: a modern conservative (not "Republican") is a "classical liberal", meaning that modern conservatives are freedom-loving folk, and are further-more the type of libertarian person that made this country, this great experiment, great.

A modern liberal (not "Democrat") or progressive, is not freedom-loving (as in liberty), but rather is one who wants the United States to "progress" or be "transformatively changed" beyond the things that made this country great, and beyond the Constitution that established it; is one for whom "hope" and "change" are justification to abuse and pervert the Constitution as a "living document", without regard to the purpose and meaning of the Constitution itself. To a modern liberal, "rights" equals "entitlements" rather than liberty; and those entitlements are selectively granted by a Government, rather than endowed by a just Creator on all men.

I, for one, think that we should be "conservative" in changing from our classically liberal (ie libertarian, small "L") philosophy, and that furthermore we should return to our roots as a moral and religious people, given that our Constitution is "wholly inadequate to the governing of any other."

If our Constitution falls, I should fear to see what will follow (though even much of our leadership heralds it as progress)!