@AnthonyJK @julieofthespirits @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes i didn't wanna lose this aside cuz I think its important.
I don't think its merely a rivalry, I think the relationship of liberals as assimilationists and conservatives as elinationists represents a dialectical identity, a unity of opposites among the colonizer class.
The Great Depression era expansion of the US state to regulate capital & provide jobs and benefits represented liberalism doing its best work (to @julieofthespirits 's point) 1/4