I believe all labels are used falsely. Conservatives are not actually conservative, Liberals are not actually liberal, as per definitions created during the age of enlightenment. They are mislabeled to represent if you are anti; abortion, gay, muslim... Or Pro; welfare, taxes, atheism... etc.
These are candy issues to a libertarian such as myself. I view so called Liberals and Conservatives as authoritarians. Progressive at that. They are the same in terms of destruction of our rights and abuse of state power. Tweedle dee and Tweedle Dummer..
The first federalist wanted to institute a federal bank and interpret "general welfare" in the enumerated powers to mean literally anything. No one at the convention gave a second or 'aye' to his 5 hour speech. He left embarrassed. Yet here we are today with everything Hamilton sought after.
