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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I dont know why this definition is made so often.
To me liberals vs conservative is not a meaningful distinction. Both liberals and conservatoves are capitalists - and thus they are placed on one side of the great political divide. On the other side is ths radical working class, the communists.
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The fallacy in this argument is that it fails to split liberalism and conservatism into social, economic, and global categories (although isolationist/globalist is a more accurate description.) You seem to be criticizing social liberals and conservatives, while liberal economic policies are the type that you are advocating against conservative (classic liberal) ideology. Global issues deal with foreign policy, and intrenational trade, so this scale can be split and the halves atached to economic and social scales.
There's also the fact that you have to address classic liberalism versus neo-liberalism, traditional conservatism versus neo-conservatism, and a whole host of terms that have been used to identify small groups and distinguish them from the crowd.