Hello, hello, hope everyone is having a wonderful day, wonderful week so far.

Today we are going to discuss the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals.

Now, there's a lot that we could discuss in relation to this, but I want to kind of go down to the basics,

because this summer what I'm trying to do is to kind of peel back the layers a little bit,

get out of the 24 minute new cycle that we are all so caught up in and say, okay, what is underneath all of this?

What are the issues in the topics that transcend all of this to help us get a better framework

from which we can kind of analyze the problems that we're facing or the disagreements that we have?

So I want to talk about the differences between conservatives and liberals from kind of, I don't want to say it's a heart level.

I guess just as I've already said, a basic level.

If you listen to this podcast, if you watch the news, it might seem like the biggest difference between conservatives and liberals is whether or not we like Donald Trump or whether or not we believe that they're 26 genders or just two genders or whether or not we believe in abortion

and all of those are big disagreements that we have and they do kind of dominate what we talk about, but they're really not the heart of our differences.

It's true that these are the disagreements that we have today, but they stem from more fundamental disagreements that really go back all the way to when conservatives and liberals were first birthed onto the world scene.

So one of the biggest questions when you are deciding yourself, whether or not you think the two fall under the conservative or the liberal or the moderate umbrella, the question is where do you believe that our rights come from?

So where do you think your rights come from conservatives in general?

And I always want to say that I'm speaking in generalities because not every single person who identifies as a conservative might agree with my assessment assessment of conservatism, same thing with the liberal side, but in general conservatives believe that your rights come from God, your rights come from a creator, your rights come from some kind of transcendent power.

Liberals in general believe that your rights come not from God, but from the government where the government has the power to give rights, even if a liberal does believe that rights come from God, they believe that the government still has the power to give and to take away rights conservatives do not believe that they believe essentially that the government has the power to recognize particular rights.

We'll talk about what that really means. So these are really the only two options, whether you believe that your rights come from God or whether they believe that they come from government. Now some people are going to push back on that and say, no, I just believe that we have rights, I don't believe in God, I just believe that they're just there and I also don't believe that they come from government, they're just there, they're just here, but that doesn't actually make very much sense.

If you don't believe that your rights come from an authority, why do you call them rights? What are rights? What right do you have to rights? If no kind of authority gave them to you, why do you believe that you have a rights to anything?

The existence of rights, something that you are entitled to, something that you should be given or should be recognized or should be protected necessitates the acknowledgement of the existence of some kind of authority otherwise.

We live in this just completely subjective society where no one agrees to play by the same rules. We have no basis for saying that we have rights, no, we have no basis for laws and we have total in our case because you don't have a right to your own body, you don't have a right to your own property, you don't have any kind of rights to life because who says that you do?

Both conservatives and liberals believe that human beings have rights, we both agree on that. We both believe that humans are entitled to certain things. We disagree on where these rights come from essentially and because we disagree on where these rights come from and what the government's role is in these rights, we often disagree on what they are.

Conservatives believe that rights are inherent, that they are as the declaration of independence says they are endowed to us by our creator and among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness also known as property.

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