Originally posted by Starlight
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Well if you think about the words, conservatives want to 'conserve' the status quo, while liberals want change. Liberals, kind of by definition, tend to challenge established power whereas conservatives tend not to. So it should be generally unsurprising that on the whole liberals tend to have the harder time of achieving their goals and have an inherently bigger task ahead of them, and are thus likely to use proportionately stronger methods.
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