Myth 2. AMERICA IS A CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY.
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Let's always keep our fundamental definitions of the political ideologies of liberal and conservative in mind:
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Liberal: favorable to progress or reform, open minded, tolerant, creative, promoting ever greater liberty, equality, justice and pursuit of happiness; generally opposing aristocratic and unequal hierarchies.
- Conservative: fearful of change, inflexible and unimaginative, disposed to conserve traditional hierarchies, institutions and traditions.
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Liberal: favorable to progress or reform, open minded, tolerant, creative, promoting ever greater liberty, equality, justice and pursuit of happiness; generally opposing aristocratic and unequal hierarchies.
All Americans are actually liberal at heart. They all believe in Freedom for All. That, folks, is a WILDLY liberal idea. For thousands of years of human history there was no such consideration; the fact that some people were inherently more free and others less so, even as abject slaves, was taken as just the way the world worked, had always worked and always would. Conservatives of just a few hundred years ago certainly did NOT believe in this idea, and were willing to go to war to fight it. One of those wars was the American Revolution. The conservatives lost that one, and most of the others they have fought to preserve Freedom for A Few. Yet vestiges of this old conservative impulse to deny freedom and equality to some people continues to live in the minds of true conservatives. Thankfully, these kinds of folks are becoming fewer and fewer in America and around the world.
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