What is a conservative and what is a liberal?

I've always pondered the actual difference, I have a pretty good idea what it is. Please don't be biased and say ';well liberals are cool and conservatives are chumps'; or vice versa. Thank you!What is a conservative and what is a liberal?
conservatives want less government in business and economic sectors and more government in social aspects of our life.


liberals want more government in business and economic sectors and less government in social aspects of our life.





More liberals are in the Democratic party, but still most of it's members could hardly be called that and vice versa for Conservatives in the GOP.What is a conservative and what is a liberal?
In ';The Federal Courts, Politics, and the Rule of Law,'; by John C. Hughes (published 1995), it says:


';In the contemporary political context, those who fear conformity have tended to describe themselves as liberal and have tended to applaud judicial 'protection' of human rights. Those who fear diversity have tended to call themselves conservatives and have been appalled by judicial 'usurpation' of the majority's discretion to form the kind of community it finds most conducive to its own happiness. The former tends to approve of the expansive theories of constitutional interpretation, while the latter tends to prefer the restrained theories of judicial review. These alignments are neither perfect nor inevitable, but the debate has surely been shrill.';
They are fictitious political ideologies that attempt to make connections between issues that don't exist so that power always remains out of the peoples hands.





What does abortion have to do with lower taxes? What does a strong national defense policy have to do with who should get married?






conservatives want less government (ex. taxes) and liberals want more government (ex laws supporting abortions and gun control).