I admit. I am jumping through the centuries. I am trying to figure out a way to explain to people that our political terminology was turned upside down.

My thesis is that the US Founders had a liberals arts education. They fought a war to liberate the US colonies from the crown. They then applied the liberal arts to the question of liberty and came up with a Constitutionally limited Republic.

Three major influences in the liberal arts world view were Aristotelian Logic, The Roman Republic and Christianity.

Conservatism was created during the French Revolution and adopted by the Tories in the 1830s. The goal of Conservatism was to restore the monarchy.

Modern Conservatism and Modern Liberalism are both traps which were designed to promote economic and political centralization.

I am trying to figure out how to explain to people why our political terminology is backwards.

Unfortunately, what happens in every election cycle is that Conservatives become more and more shrill and more and more convinced that we need to have a Caesar or Napoleon to step in restore the ideals of liberty.