Well, Raoul, your gonna get a lot of information from a lot of people. Liberal tends to be a big, big word, it's easier to define conservative. Here are some observations, descriptions, not completely definitive, but certainly illuminating. The right-wing will say they also have some of the beliefs, too, but don't act on them.

Communists, socialists, fascists, they're all liberals. People who use big words tend to be liberals. The French, of course, are liberal.

Activists of all kinds are liberals. If you see the word "activist", assume you're dealing with your basic liberal.

Anything except the "missionary position" is liberal and deviants who stray from that clearly shouldn't be involved in Little League, Sunday School, or be allowed to vote.

People who believe in abortion rights and not murder, well, they're your same basic liberal. Can't be trusted. "Civil rights" is a liberal code phrase used to cover all manner of draining away power and authority from those best equipped to be powerful and authoritarian in a fair and equitable manner.

People who believe that poor people are still people, that's at the core of yer liberal belief system. (The way they use words will show you that liberals can't be trusted. If God loved the poor "people" He would have made them rich. So much for the value of the poor in God's eyes.)

Yer liberal wants to rob from the rich and give to themselves. The key word there is "rob", They say "tax", which yer liberal code word for what is really "rob".

Yer liberal thinks that a poor person's toothache hurts as much as a rich person's toothache, as if they could feel!

Yer liberal is a sneaky little jerk who wants others of his same bent persuasion to vote so as to take power for themselves. Those same folks follow the liberal party line by thinking the State should provide education to everyone.

Basically yer liberal really believes that people are important, that there are many points of view, not all right and not all wrong, and that in any society there are obligations to each other and to the common good. Doesn't just say it, really believes it. It's necessarily hard to define liberal because it's inclusive, and therefore sloppy.

As I said, they're sneaky little jerks, but there's so many of them you have to watch out. It's easier to define a clean philosophy like conservative because it really stands for something, it's unbending, it's moral and it doesn't change, wander all over the map. But that's for another time.

Hope this helps.

Arf