{"id":477,"date":"2009-02-24T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-02-27T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T02:07:27","slug":"conservative-vs-liberal-a-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/conservative-vs-liberal-a-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative vs Liberal: a definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The 6 definitions below sum up the argument pretty well for middle of the road liberals and conservatives.\u00a0 Then there are those far right and far left personalities who try to define a profile that is the only profile to follow for fellow man.\u00a0 I believe personality definitions are spherical in nature and can be defined by spherical equations (and a sinusoid).\u00a0 The far fringes meet and touch on the other side of reality.\u00a0 Once you get past + (conservative) &amp; &#8211; (liberal) 90 degrees (reality) you slowly progress into non-reality until at 180 degrees the right and left non-realities meet and in essence are the same in actions and deeds.\u00a0 I suppose psychologists have a term for this type of behavior.\u00a0 Boy, I sure would like to rate some of those right wing radio personalities who so eloquently seduce their masses.\u00a0 The same with left wingers too but then we never really hear from them except today in D.C.\u00a0 Now what is the Sine of 45?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservative<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Belief in natural law<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in established institutions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Preference for liberty over equality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suspicion of power\u2014and of human nature<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in exceptionalism<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in the individual<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Liberal<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Belief in positive law<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Faith in progress<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Preference for equality over liberty<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in the benevolence of government and individuals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in the perfectibility of human beings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Belief in the community<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The 6 definitions below sum up the argument pretty well for middle of the road liberals and conservatives.\u00a0 Then there are those far right and far left personalities who try to define a profile that is the only profile to follow for fellow man.\u00a0 I believe personality definitions are spherical in nature and can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[32,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}