You speak my language. Do I?

All around the world, everywhere I go

No one understands me

No one knows what I'm trying to say

Everywhere I go no one understands me

They look at me when I talk to them

And they scratch their head

They go, "What's he trying to say?"

But you… you speak my language

But you… you speak my language

Yeah! Yes!

All around the world, everywhere I go

No one understands me

No one knows what I'm trying to say

Even in my home town

My friends make me write it down

They look at me when I talk to them

And they shrug their shoulders

They go, "What's he talking about?

But you… you speak my language... .

- lyrics from You Speak My Language by Morphine

At Thesaurus.com, a simple search for synonyms of the words 'liberal' and 'conservative' yields results that are telling, though not surprising. Of course, Thesaurus.com is not alone in its sin-onymic contortions. Other sites parrot the same newspeak.

Under liberal, do note the synonym in position four in column two. No wonder so many Catholics behave as they do, and so many others are just as misinformed and misbehaving.

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Those who play fast and loose with language, redefining it in their own brownshirted image, must not be accorded any authority if civility is to be preserved and barbarism avoided. Attempts to gag civilized people and bind people of goodwill to bizarre fantasies and dangerous illusions must be met with firm, well-reasoned opposition and perhaps more than a little derision aimed at stupid ideas or stupid ways of doings things to shake the rust from people's brains.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject. It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just and noble. - Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews, February 1, 1867 by the Rector of the University John Stuart Mill

There are things that must be challenged and rejected, and there are things - truth, justice, reason, civility - worth preserving, i.e., conserving.

conservative (adj.)

late 14c., conservatyf, "tending to preserve or protect, preservative, having the power to keep whole or safe," from Old French conservatif, from Medieval Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix, + servare "keep watch, maintain" (from PIE root ser - "to protect"). - Online Etymological Dictionary