I hate how America uses the terms liberal and conservative and how they have so many different meanings today.  Liberals aren't really liberals, they're big government progressives.  The only thing conservatives really have in common with each other is that they are all socially conservative.  They are split between small and big government and fiscal liberalism/conservatism and even foreign policy.  Nowadays, the libertarian sect has taken to conservative republicans because it usually aligns more closely with their beliefs on less intrusive government, even if libertarians are more socially moderate/liberal.

 

I feel America desperately needs a 3rd, Libertarian Party in politics, but its just not possible with half the country siding with the progressive democrat base because its the party that feeds them.  America is as divided as its been since Vietnam and there's no end in sight.  I feel like both parties are special interest groups catering to one group of people instead of the nation as a whole.

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