The difference between a Conservative and a liberal is

[healthmyths]

The liberal sees a hungry person and gives a fish thus feeding the hungry person for just one day.

The conservative teaches the hungry person how to fish thereby feeding the person for a life time.

I applaud the liberal for compassion to feed the hungry person.. but in doing so all the liberal has done is made the hungry person dependent on the liberal for more fish!

Where as the compassionate conservative wants the hungry person to be able to fish thereby feeding for a lifetime.

This is best illustrated by the "Three Bitter Years" Or "The Great Leap Forward".. in China.
Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."
The phrase "Three Bitter Years" is often used by Chinese peasants to describe this period.
The great Chinese famine was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture.
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese communist party, introduced drastic changes in farming which prohibited farm ownership.

In a similar manner to the massive Soviet-created famine in Ukraine (the Holodomor), doctors were prohibited from listing "starvation" as a cause of death on death certificates. This kind of deception was far from uncommon; ....

Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Conclusion is the "Great Leap Forward" official Chinese recognition of the importance of policy mistakes in causing the disaster,
claiming that the disaster was 30% due to natural causes and 70% by mismanagement.
"Central planning".. "Cubicle Command"...

And so because the liberal thinks the central planning is superior truly inhumane activities such as these are considered by liberals as necessary:

Dikötter claims that at least 2.5 million of the victims were beaten or tortured to death.
He provides a graphic example of what happened to a family after one member was caught stealing some food:
Liu Desheng, guilty of poaching a sweet potato, was covered in urine ... He, his wife, and his son were also forced into a heap of excrement.
Then tongs were used to pry his mouth open after he refused to swallow excrement. He died three weeks later..
Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But of course no liberal would have do that... only conservatives do water boarding!!!

 

[Truthseeker420]

A conservative would steal their fish and blame them for being weak.

 

[HenryBHough]

I'd applaud the liberal for giving some poor sod the fish provided the liberal hadn't stolen it from a person who caught it and needed it to feed his/her own family.

Also, another forlorn hope......

 

[arKangel]

Fishing isn't that hard to do. For crying out loud my children at 5 years of age could do it.

If you can't fish... as ridiculous as it may sound...
A charitable person may have you clean the fish, then give you a meal.
'course if you are too incompetent to do that... you still may find a charitable way to eat.
There is hardly a reason to watch someone starve to death.

A true liberal, they would offer a deal similar to a charitable person.
A progressive(faux liberal) or a conservative will have you exterminated by the government, unless you give them money!!! And when you are out of money, yep, extermination.
Whether you could fish or not!, they could not care less about fish.

Faux liberals and conservatives are the same thing, pure evil tyrants.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Republicans Debate How Much To Cut Education

Republicans have been internally debating just how much to cut federal spending on education, but their platform unveiled this week at their convention in Tampa Bay does little to clarify their vision beyond referencing that no new investments will be made. While the Romney campaign works out the details of the education funding conundrum (or simply figures out the PR spin), Tea Party conservatives are loudly voicing their opinions to end federal spending on education entirely.

Republicans Debate How Much To Cut Education While China And India Invest More | ThinkProgress

I assume you were speaking metaphorically.

 

[Billy000]

The liberal sees a hungry person and gives a fish thus feeding the hungry person for just one day.

The conservative teaches the hungry person how to fish thereby feeding the person for a life time.

I applaud the liberal for compassion to feed the hungry person.. but in doing so all the liberal has done is made the hungry person dependent on the liberal for more fish!

Where as the compassionate conservative wants the hungry person to be able to fish thereby feeding for a lifetime.

This is best illustrated by the "Three Bitter Years" Or "The Great Leap Forward".. in China.
Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."
The phrase "Three Bitter Years" is often used by Chinese peasants to describe this period.
The great Chinese famine was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture.
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese communist party, introduced drastic changes in farming which prohibited farm ownership.

In a similar manner to the massive Soviet-created famine in Ukraine (the Holodomor), doctors were prohibited from listing "starvation" as a cause of death on death certificates. This kind of deception was far from uncommon; ....

Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Conclusion is the "Great Leap Forward" official Chinese recognition of the importance of policy mistakes in causing the disaster,
claiming that the disaster was 30% due to natural causes and 70% by mismanagement.
"Central planning".. "Cubicle Command"...

And so because the liberal thinks the central planning is superior truly inhumane activities such as these are considered by liberals as necessary:

Dikötter claims that at least 2.5 million of the victims were beaten or tortured to death.
He provides a graphic example of what happened to a family after one member was caught stealing some food:
Liu Desheng, guilty of poaching a sweet potato, was covered in urine ... He, his wife, and his son were also forced into a heap of excrement.
Then tongs were used to pry his mouth open after he refused to swallow excrement. He died three weeks later..
Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But of course no liberal would have do that... only conservatives do water boarding!!!

Christ. Only a con would think some self indulgent metaphor somehow explains the complicated psychological differences between conservatives and liberals.

Tell me If you think such a subject can be so easily simplified, why is it that 2.5x more private sector jobs have been created in Obama's 5 years than in Bush's 8?

 

[edthecynic]

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[arKangel]

The liberal sees a hungry person and gives a fish thus feeding the hungry person for just one day.

The conservative teaches the hungry person how to fish thereby feeding the person for a life time.

I applaud the liberal for compassion to feed the hungry person.. but in doing so all the liberal has done is made the hungry person dependent on the liberal for more fish!

Where as the compassionate conservative wants the hungry person to be able to fish thereby feeding for a lifetime.

This is best illustrated by the "Three Bitter Years" Or "The Great Leap Forward".. in China.
Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."
The phrase "Three Bitter Years" is often used by Chinese peasants to describe this period.
The great Chinese famine was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture.
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese communist party, introduced drastic changes in farming which prohibited farm ownership.

In a similar manner to the massive Soviet-created famine in Ukraine (the Holodomor), doctors were prohibited from listing "starvation" as a cause of death on death certificates. This kind of deception was far from uncommon; ....

Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Conclusion is the "Great Leap Forward" official Chinese recognition of the importance of policy mistakes in causing the disaster,
claiming that the disaster was 30% due to natural causes and 70% by mismanagement.
"Central planning".. "Cubicle Command"...

And so because the liberal thinks the central planning is superior truly inhumane activities such as these are considered by liberals as necessary:

Dikötter claims that at least 2.5 million of the victims were beaten or tortured to death.
He provides a graphic example of what happened to a family after one member was caught stealing some food:
Liu Desheng, guilty of poaching a sweet potato, was covered in urine ... He, his wife, and his son were also forced into a heap of excrement.
Then tongs were used to pry his mouth open after he refused to swallow excrement. He died three weeks later..
Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But of course no liberal would have do that... only conservatives do water boarding!!!

Christ. Only a con would think some self indulgent metaphor somehow explains the complicated psychological differences between conservatives and liberals.

Tell me If you think such a subject can be so easily simplified, why is it that 2.5x more private sector jobs have been created in Obama's 5 years than in Bush's 8?

You and the conservative you criticize are the same thing.
Obama is a conservative.

 

[Tank]

Morals

 

[oreo]

A liberal is concerned with redistributing the eggs that the Golden Goose lays, while a conservative is more concerned about the health of the Golden Goose.

 

[edthecynic]

A liberal is concerned with redistributing the eggs that the Golden Goose lays, while a conservative is more concerned about the health of the Golden Goose.

As he hoards all the eggs for himself.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The difference between a Conservative and a liberal is

Liberals are pragmatists who predicate their policy positions on objective facts and evidence.

Conservatives are ideologues who predicate their policy positions on subjective and errant partisan dogma.

Liberals accurately understand the world to be complex and multifaceted, where there are no simple explanations or easy solution to the problems we face.

Conservatives incorrectly perceive the world in a simplistic black and white context, and advocate equally simplistic and failed ‘solutions’ to complex problems.

Liberals embrace change, diversity, and expressions of individual liberty.

Conservatives fear change, diversity, and expressions of individual liberty.

Conservative dogma is in essence a reactionary anachronism, a destructive, counterproductive effort to return to an idealized American past that never actually existed to begin with, a past that was in fact detrimental to millions of Americans.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Morals

Given the hate expressed by you and most other conservatives toward black, Hispanic, and gay Americans, as well as immigrants, conservatives clearly are in no position to claim a ‘monopoly’ on morality.

 

[S.J.]

The liberal would see the hungry person and lobby for taxpayer funds to be allocated for the fish, then avoid paying his own taxes while claiming the Republicans aren't paying their fair share.

 

[Politico]

Nothing at the end of the day.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Morals

Given the hate expressed by you and most other conservatives toward black, Hispanic, and gay Americans, as well as immigrants, conservatives clearly are in no position to claim a ‘monopoly’ on morality.

Conversely, Liberals feel they can legislate morality simply because they have been successful in grabbing other people's money and distributing it in the name of Government.

 

[occupied]

Conservatives seek political simplicity and authoritarian leaders, liberals are more detail oriented and prefer a more horizontal power structure, both have a valid place in government and neither work well all alone. The rather new idea that either one offers the complete answer to our problems is somewhat ignorant and politically unsophisticated.

 

[Vox]

the main difference is in the mindset. leftards are collectivists and as such they do not think for themselves but look for the "leaders" to give them talking points.

Conservatives are individualists and reject the collective brainwash.

 

[edthecynic]

the main difference is in the mindset. leftards are collectivists and as such they do not think for themselves but look for the "leaders" to give them talking points.

Conservatives are individualists and reject the collective brainwash.

To the Right you are only an individual if you absolutely conform to CON$ervative doctrine. Deviate only slightly and you are branded a Liberal. To the Right there is no such thing as an individual, if you are not CON$ervative you are Liberal. There is nothing in between.

O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.

May 12, 2008
RUSH: I maintain that moderates and independents are Democrats. Because, by definition, if someone or some organization is not conservative, it's by definition going to be liberal, not moderate, not independent, it's going to be liberal

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

 

[natstew]

The liberal would see the hungry person and lobby for taxpayer funds to be allocated for the fish, then avoid paying his own taxes while claiming the Republicans aren't paying their fair share.

This is the most accurate description of a Liberal on this thread.
Even though it doesn't go far enough I applaud you SJ.