Getting into a bit of a political mood, I guess. Just some of the things I noticed recently.
The definition of conservatists and liberals seem to be relative concepts that differ among places and times. While reading some of the message boards on The Motley Fool, I began to learn what the current American society seems to think of the conservatists and the liberals.
It seems to me, on a very coarse level, those two concepts are linked to the two major political parties. Among many characteristics, the most intriguing ones, for me, was the convervatists’ view of the liberals being socialists (or “commies”) with the idea of a bigger government and the convervatists being huge supporters of individual freedom and small governments.
I spent the most of my formative years in Korea. So, to me, conservatists are those who supports totalitarian, conformistic views in which the bigger governments are a good thing. And you would be a liberal if you were fighting for your individual rights.
Maybe I am confused (I probably am). But it just goes to say that even the seemingly straight forward terminologies can carry different ideas among different people.
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