The difference is in the knowing.

We allow words to get distorted. To mean something negative. When really, the word should have a positive meaning. Such as welfare. Or liberal. Unfortunately, we've allowed people with anti-welfare and anti-liberal biases to define the words. Just the same way that an anti-conservative like me defines conservative. I think of conservatives as idiots. Just as conservatives think of me (a liberal) as an idiot. When really both of us might be pretty decent fellas. But we borrow each other's tactics. At the very least, we poke fun. We tend to be unfair. But we are being honest. Because we actually perceive each other as ignorant and ill-informed. And even unprincipled. But still, I maintain there's a big difference between a liberal and a conservative. Liberals know they're idiots. Consevatives don't know they're idiots. That makes liberals smart idiots. And conservatives stupid idiots. --Jim Broede