At this post, you can find a list about what it means to be a conservative and, by clicking on the appropriate link, the list on liberalism that inspired the conservative list. Reading the list that relates to your particular phiosophy will make you feel warm and fuzzy. But beware:
Such lists are either a good-faith attempt to draw a broad tent that everyone agrees with . . . in which case they generally fail because they degenerate into useless platitudes that no one could possibly disagree with, and therefore do nothing at all to set you apart from your opponents. . . or they are a tendentious attempt to claim the moral high ground for your side through semantic chicanery. In which case they fail because no one is that stupid.
