What does it mean to be “conservative?” What does it mean to be “liberal?” Furthermore, who invented the contemporary definitions of political conservatism and liberalism? I will tell you who defined them - your television sets and their talking heads, which are owned, operated, and forced to say what their elite owner’s pay them to say. Why does this back-and-forth struggle for power continue in our system-the very “spirit of party” that President Washington warned us of in his farewell address-whether between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats? What purpose does it serve? What are the consequences of such battles? So what exactly is a ‘conservative’ or a ‘liberal’? Is a ‘liberal’ today different from one two centuries ago? Do these labels accurately reflect the values and beliefs of each person who so classifies themselves? Today, many words carry a meaning far different from their original intent. This same etymological metamorphosis has occurred throughout the English language. Whenever words are understood in a sense different from that which they had when introduced… mistakes may be very injurious.” (Noah Webster, via Quoty) The effect of these changes is that some words are not understood … and being now used in a sense different from that which they had … present wrong signification of the false ideas. “In the lapse of two or three centuries, changes have taken place which, in particular passages, … obscure the sense of the original languages…. Noah Webster, a brilliant Founding Father, master of twenty-six languages, and author of the first American dictionary (published in 1828) once said when referring to the Bible: What is the difference between conservatives and liberals? Are you a conservative or a liberal? Do you classify yourself with these (or similar) epithets?
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