Political Comment # 4: Review of the REAL (as opposed to the "political") Definitions of Terms.

conservative:  (definition, 2)  Supporting political ideas that include less involvement by government in business and people's lives, by encouraging everyone to work, earn their own money and having strong ideas regarding moral behavior.

moderate: (definition, 2)  Having political opinions or beliefs that are not extreme and that most people consider sensible and reasonable.

liberal: (definitions, 2& 3)  Supporting political ideas that include more involvement by governmnent in business and people's lives, but willing to respect the different behaviors by individual people, in their private lives.  Supporting, or allowing, changes in political, social, or religious systems, that give individual people more freedom.

Situations:
1.  A business debits your personal checking account, without your prior knowledge or permission.
2.  A business, misapplies your payment, consistently "overbills" you.   You cannot change vendors for the service this business provides, partially because government regulations favor them having a "monopoly" on their service.
3.  A US President, initiates a War, partially because, in a "candid statement," at the start of the war, "the leader of the other country attempted to kill his father."  This President makes that statement only once.
4.  Over the last 3 years, several "national politicians," most representing one party, are "caught" in "compromising moral circumstances."
5.  One party is represented by "media personalities," whose main message is one of division, hate and "the big lie(s)," to influence the unwary or unthinking, to the purpose of generating increasing anger against government.
6.  A political party wins a "lanslide victory" in a national election with a key "plank" of it's election promises to the electorate, of "cutting taxes." After being installed in office, this party supports continuing "special tax breaks," for the very rich, causing the general electorate to continue bearing a heavier tax burden.

This list could become as long as your memory and include more "real examples," (all the above ARE real examples) of current situations.

Put aside, for a moment, that political parties, especially one, misuses the above terms, by altering their real definitions.  Forget current definitions by politicians and use the dictionary definitions.

When reviewing the dictionary definitions, above and considering them against the list of real current examples of what is "really going on now, has occurred recently and continues to occur," despite American moral integrity and tradition, which of the above 3 ways do YOU WANT TO DEFINE YOURSELF?

Dr. Walter Wayne Hopewell