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I was going to say what you did. I'm more conservative than a lot of people in the Fediverse, but the way things are going, I'm sliding toward liberalism again. There's a lot of stuff where I think the conversation needs to be boiled down to extremes: Will you help people, or will you harm them? You don't have an option of inaction - inaction is harmful. If you have the power to help another person, you should be under a moral imperative to do so. And right now, I see a lot of conservatives who sugarcoat things, and fail to realize that the people they've picked to represent them see the cruelty as the point.
For what it's worth, that goes beyond liberalism and into leftist belief. Liberal has been traditionally used to refer to the left in the US since the US has two right wing parties, but is center to center right literally everywhere else (like Canada).