Liberal has taking on a whole new meaning today than what it used to mean.
Liberal in the Bible = Generous
Liberal today = No such thing as right or wrong, just do what feels good and let others do the same.
If that is what you mean by "liberal" today, then that is your problem, not mine.
The word "liberal" means "generous." It did then, it does now. Taken to extreme, it can come to be forgiving to the extreme. To be so generous in forgiveness that you don't even consider some actions as "wrong" or "right," well, I could see that as being "liberal" to a point. Thing is, that's not what today's liberals are.
Today's liberals certainly don't say "there's no such thing as right or wrong." On the contrary, liberals absolutely believe in wrong and right! They may think different things are wrong than you do, and different things are right. For example, a liberal person thinks that turning down someone for a job just because that person is female, or non-white, or gay, is wrong. In this case, it would be easy to label the conservative as amoral, and the liberal as the voice or morality.
Today's conservatives think corporations should be able to run without any oversight or regulation. If someone gets hurt, that's that other person's fault. A corporation can do no wrong, as long as it's creating jobs (even if most of those jobs are over-seas) and making money (even if most of that money is going to those who already have an abundance). THAT is "no such thing as right or wrong, just do what feels good and let the others do the same." And that is absolutely what the liberals are fighting against.
A liberal believes in accountability: if you make a mess, you should clean it up.
A liberal believes in shared responsibility: what I do doesn't just affect me, it affects all those around me, and therefore, I can't just pretend like I live in a vacuum and do my own thing.
I'm not saying that you're the type of conservative who does what I describe above. For all I know, you agree that corporations should be responsible for cleaning up their own messes (rather than sloughing it on to the taxpayers' backs), and that actions have consequences, and therefore must be considered before calling some action legal or illegal. I know there are a good many conservatives who agree with me on these core issues. My husband, for example.
A person should take the time to listen to someone who disagrees with them, get to understand their point of view, before attacking it. Don't just assume you know what someone believes, based on what someone you agree with told you "they" believe. Would you trust an atheist to be accurate in what a Christian believes? Of course not. Then don't believe any conservative pundit to be accurate in what Liberalism means, and what we believe.
I promise not to assume you swallow the whole of "conservative party lines," and to listen to what you believe and why, even if I disagree, if you extend the same courtesy to me.
