### person | adult:

Liberal
* Most liberals are in favor of abortion rights
  - welfare class, or lower
  - perceive democracy and non violence as sufficient to achieve their ends
* Some Liberals say they want sexual orientation clearly defined.
* actually believe that welfare is good for people
  - hate wealth because they hate all success
* are adults
  - at least semi-intellectually honest in their beliefs about the role of government
  - detested in almost every social circle
  - essential to the smooth functioning of modern capitalist society
  - intelligent agents
  - people of the state who believe that government holds a claim to what people earn
  - political parties
  - serious professionals
  - the adults in the church whom the children of conservatives can talk to
* argue that free markets cause large disparities in income.
* believe in affordable health care for everyone, to keep our people strong.
* believe in equal opportunities for all to rise above our means
  - to rise above our social status
  - freedom of expression, conservatives believe in freedom of enterprise
  - freedom, individual rights, and free markets
  - the freedom and sovereignty of the individual
  - monogamy theory
  - morality is the cause of immorality
* believe that people are inherently selfless, or good
  - their politics are the product of morality
  - the part of the brain that controls thought is located in the lap
  - they are struggling to overcome human frailties
* claim for themselves the mantle both of justice and of mercy
  - that the Scriptures are without compassion or mercy
* define citizens as holders of negative rights against the state.
* differ with conservatives in their conception of the purpose of law.
* dominate the ranks of the clergy and control the vast majority of seminaries.
* have a long-standing commitment to improve the treatment of animals
  - an entirely different concept of freedom
* hold an almost religious belief in the effectiveness of government as a social tool.
* is an adult
  - probably the strongest advocates of democracy
* kill people with their compassion and lack of wisdom.
* like to do things as a family.
* make a distinction between good and bad capitalism.
* measure compassion by how many people are given welfare.
* often see conservatives as mean-spirited people who have no hearts.
* promote privacy rights only as a lie to further their hatred for people.
* reject the patronising and often discriminatory treatment of older people.
* see people as the enemy of nature
  - themselves as a sort of informal aristocracy of experts
  - vast differences in the intellectual and moral potential of people
* tend to fight for personal freedoms and government support for the individual
  - make decisions based on what ought to work in theory
* think of poverty as a material deficit that government can make good with new benefits
  - people who own their own home are rich
  - that industry pollutes and destroys the environment
* trace high joblessness to social structures of race and inequality.
* typically say that they want to achieve equality for everyone.
* value freedom of expression.

### person | adult | liberal:

Pluralist
* are clerics
  - philosophers
* argue that ownership and control have been separated in large corporations.

Religious liberal
* deny the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy.
* dream of utopia and call it ecumenism.
* put less emphasis on formal beliefs and more on practical living.