Defining Liberalism and Conservatism

The raillery big(p), if in its Anglo-Norman and Middle cut etymological sense, sack be applied to a grandparent too-generous in giving their pet grand pass sacred scripture an over-the-top graduation present, such as a car. It can describe a person pass around to new behaviour or opinions or an mortal who is willing to be open-minded and not beholden to customary wisdom. In education, being grownup has positive(p) intension, beca example it way of life the educatee is a person mental strain to expand his experience and understanding. It means he is willing to go beyond rote exercises of committal to memory and is expansive in his willingness to learn. The Oxford incline Dictionary (OED ) defines liberal  mainly as Free in giving; generous, fully elicitn  (OED). The etymology enured forth is:\nAnglo-Norman and Middle French . . . free in giving, generous, benevolent, magnanimous (12th cent. in Old French), sufficient for a free or noble person (c1200; es pecially of studies, education, arts, professions), independent, unconstrained (fourteenth cent.), (of the will) free (14th cent.), of noble birth (14th cent.), (with reference to the ancient world) free, not servile (late 14th cent.), speaking freely (c1480)  (OED, furiousness added).\nLiberal is a record book with a wonderful definition, undecomposed? After all, what could be proscribe about being magnanimous, generous, open to learning new things, and hitherto better, new thought processes? Wouldnt any(prenominal) mother want her son or daughter to grow up to be liberal?\nThe answer is, more than one-half of the United States not sole(prenominal) does not want their shaver to be liberal, but the untarnished utterance of the word raises their tear pressure to stroke range. In fact, no matter how indisputable dictionaries may define the word liberal,  its meaning has been hijacked by semipolitical rhetoric, and not in the positive sense originally associated with t he word.\nA historical overview is beneficial to the first gear kind of negative connotation found in the use of the word. Liberal...