What are conservative and liberal ideals?

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I think this sums it up nicely. Not perfect, but the basic points are covered.

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/cons...beral-beliefs/

Or this one http://news-basics.com/2010/liberal-...vative-values/

I don't think either side understands the other even though when discussed at the indiviual level, both find more in common than not. There are really four (maybe six) parties in our country with the vocal minorities speaking for what we call the two parties. Squeaky wheel and all...

Going from crazy right wing to left wing crazy it goes

Tea Party/Republicans/Conservatives/Liberals/Democrats/Progressives

They get progressivly more bat-shit crazy the farther to either side with, what I believe, are most of us in the middle. The best governments have been when there is compromise between all sides but we have killed that in our day and age. A Statesman was somebody that could find a way to talk with their "enemies" to reach consensous. We don't have any statesmen anymore. And before anybody starts throwing those stones all sides are guilty. The Right almost threw us down the hole with 8 years of blind obedience to a party and not the country. The Left is in a process of following suit. The "Liberal" tenets at the beginning of this are insultingly biased but show how little both sides understand each other. We are at our best not when our side wins (we are seeing in the last 12 years what that looks like) but instead when we all listen to each others concerns and find what is "right" with each others positions. America is what should come first, not our parties.