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Originally Posted by Originalist
In the geopolitical world, a liberal is someone who believes in one's life being dictated to and cared for by a nanny state. Individual goals and dreams must be set aside. One's focus must be on maintaining the needs of the state.
In the geopolitical world, conservatism is founded on freedom of conscious and self-reliance with as little influence as possible from government. The focus is on the individual, not the state. The individual rises or falls based on his own efforts.
Yet, somehow in the Apostolic world, we have swapped titles. The former would be called "conservative" while the latter would be called "liberal".
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The funny thing is that what you are describing as "conservatism" used to be called "classical liberalism", and the conservatives were those wanting to keep the monarchy, the state church, etc...
If you think about it, modern liberals, when it comes to governments, are actually the "old conservatives" wanting to setup a really strong government and a dominant religion that subdues everything else: atheism, worship of science and technology as what will set us "free", self definition of morals, and oppression in the name of "tolerance".
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