What is liberalism? A lot of really dumb right-wingers contend that liberalism is communism. Truth is, the two things couldn't be more different. A liberal communist is an oxymoron. Liberalism is the state of freedom. The very prefix used to form the word, 'liber', means free. It is the same prefix found in the words liberate and liberty. If conservatism means to conserve, liberalism means to liberate.

A truly free society is a liberal society. Repression is the enemy of liberalism, and it has no other enemy. In a truly free society, there is almost no room for conservatism, and certainly not enough room for an entire political party. The only times conservatism should be used in a free society, is when conserving is necessary.

Some parts of liberalism are not good. Obviously, murder should not be free. Despite that, the most extreme of liberals would say that even murder should be free. And that's what a true liberal is - someone who always advocates liberty and liberation.

Personally, I advocate the liberation of almost all things. Only things like murder, rape and robbery I oppose. That makes me a liberal in the true meaning of the word, but certainly not an extremist.

And now that you have a proper political education, maybe you can more capably discern the motives of politicians and political parties. If they advocate repression, they're not liberals. If they advocate liberation, they are liberals. If they advocate repression in the form of conservation, they are not liberals, but they may be correct as sometimes conservation is necessary. A conservative political party has no place in a free society. Liberals are more than capable of ascertaining the few cases where things should not be free. In a free society, the amount of things that should be repressed make up about 1% of the total amount of things (repressed for the purpose of conservation is an even smaller percentage). With such a small percentage, what is the need for an entire, major, political party?