True Liberal

Did anyone else out there ever wonder if the words "Liberal" and "Liberty" shared a common root word? Well I have wondered that for a long time, and it's troubled me over the years. Our ancestors fought desparately for liberty, so if they share a common root word I thought maybe I'm on the wrong side because liberty is a good thing. As it turns out, they both come from the latin term "liber". This term means freedom from excessive government control. As you can guess I was now very confused and my head about turned in a complete circle. If you know anything about politics you know that the "Liberals" are the ones creating new government policies and agencies for everything, raising taxes, and trying to destroy free market. As I went out in search of the answer I found out why they get to have the name "Liberal" instead of the people who believe in liberty. Apperently it is the view of many that liberals have a more "open minded" way of viewing politics, whereas conservatives try to stick to what we have and want no changes. As you may have guessed, this did not clear up any of my confusion. I guess that having really bad ideas and wanting to take away freedom is a very open minded thing now. Last time I checked, the practice of government controlling people's lives was around long before capitalism. If you ask me, capitalism is more open-minded than government control. The idea of a country where people have the abilility to become wealthy without the government is the real liberal thought. Without the very liberal practice of capitalism, Ben Franklin would never have been able to invent electricity, and the car, plane, phone, internet, cell phone, and many other inventions would be government projects and would cost a lot in taxes but never become efficient. We are called conservatives because we cling onto the things that we know to have worked in the past. All we have to go by is past results, and capitalism is responsible for the greatest inventions. How many great inventions come from cuba? Are people really better off in socialist countries or is everyone just poor together? We're not lacking in liberal thought here, we just read our history books that show capitalist countries doing far better than socialist. Don't forget that Lucifer was the first socialist who wanted everyone to be equal but without freedom. I don't know about you, but I side with Jesus who is the author of freedom and agency.