They have different methods of picking your pocket. Liberals: play on education - dump money into slums via schools...hide the money Conservatives: play on your freedom - dump the money into war...hide the money Realists: play on the individual - reform projects to undo the mess of liberals and conservatives...hide the money
Liberals and conservatives.
There are crosscutting cleavages between liberals and conservatives because the issues that are causing these crosscutting cleavages are issues that liberals (people who are willing to disregard traditional values in politics) and conservatives (people who believe traditional values are important in politics) are debating over. They have opposite views over these matters. These crosscutting cleavages are based on race, ethnicity, religion, region, and education.
Conservatives in Europe tended to support traditional social hierarchies and the influence of the monarchy, while liberals advocated for individual freedoms and constitutional government. Conservatives were generally suspicious of revolutionary change and sought to maintain stability, while liberals were more open to reform and progressive ideas. Conservatives often relied on the support of the aristocracy and the church, while liberals drew their support from the middle class and intellectuals seeking political change.
n contrast to liberals, conservatives want to keep government limited except in the area of marriage. They wish for the government to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Conservatives believe in keeping freedoms and repelling laws that go against the Constitution so if it wasnt for conservatives many laws would be passed that are unconstitutional such as taking away guns (one of the biggest controversies between liberals and conservatives)
I am dead serious when I say that Conservatives earn the money; Liberals spend it and more. Wish it weren't so, but it is.
You will get a variety of answers to this question, some more biased than others. Liberals will argue about the innate evil of corporations and capitalism, the place our country has in the world, and protection of minorities and other oppressed groups. Conservatives will argue that individual rights and personal liberty, both economic and social, must not be interfered with by governments or any authoritative body. I feel it boils down to a difference in the view of human nature. Liberals believe that people are fundamentally good for the most part. Conservatives believe that people are fundamentally flawed. The majority of the differences in their respective policies and rhetoric stem from this difference.
Internal turmoil between conservatives and liberals, and constant meddling from foreign powers, including the United States, France and Spain.
The question suggests that liberals are not realists. We could also post the question, "What is the core disagreement between conservatism and realism?" You can see the difficulty, the conflict, and WikiAnswers does not play favorites. Liberalist thinking is no more or less realistic than conservative thinking, and any point of view can be argued.
Romantics celebrated nature, while Realists wanted to show industrial life as it was for everyday people.
People from anywhere can ask and answer questions. Some of them will be liberals, some of them conservatives, and some of them in between. If you see a biased question, flag it. We have teams of people who go in and try to make things less one-sided. :)
You could make an argument for the differences between them while yet they do have similarities. Both would be against homosexual marriages unlike liberals.