Don't be a jerk
There is no such thing in Catholicism. You either accept it, or you don't. There is no partial acceptance of this dogma or that dogma. Conservative vs Liberal Catholic is divisive nonsense created after Hegel's dialectic and Masonry.
Rittenhouse is on video stating he was there in support of the BLM protests, but, naively wanted to "keep order". He is liberal by every sense of the word.
Yeah, in this case, that's exactly what I mean.
Yes, the bit about Venn diagrams in school -- I went a bit too far there, I'll admit. I shouldn't have said that. I apologize.
But I wanted you (and others) to understand that we must be precise in our language. "Conservative" means different things to different people, so you have to distinguish and define your terms.
You were condemning conservatives "of all stripes" and that wasn't very nice either. I consider myself a conservative -- certainly not a liberal! And so do many others on CathInfo. I'm a monarchist, Distributist, Traditional Catholic, pushing for the reign of Christ the King in political life which certainly goes well above-and-beyond what most conservatives are for. But in the natural dialectic of good vs. evil, I'm with "good". And in the natural dialectic of "conservative vs. liberal" I'm conservative.
You have to understand that there's nothing Hegelian about certain NATURAL dualities or dialectics in life. Hegel and his followers didn't create every duality in the natural world. There's male and female, matter and form, past and future, dark and light, good and evil, body and soul. The Hegelian dialectic is something very specific. It's much deeper than just "a duality". I'll leave it at that for now, because that's a whole other topic.
When a group or friend on Facebook is talking about this or that man is "conservative" -- that means he'll be above-average easy to get along with.
For a 2 hour get-together with homeschoolers in the local park, "conservative" sure beats "liberal". If someone in the world asked me if I'm conservative or liberal, I'm certainly going to respond "conservative".
But in other contexts, "conservative" basically means "rah rah Republican", those who oppose Liberals in the boring 2-party political system, and then it's a big, green
count me out!P.S. a liberal Catholic is no Catholic at all. But conservatives are a certain "group" in the Conciliar Church. My point was conservatives were wanting to stick with the older ways (tradition) rather than abandon the past. In this particular case, the opposing group (liberals) are not even worthy of the name Catholic. I didn't address that point. My point was that Traditional Catholics are a super-set of conservative Catholics -- taking their position, and going further.