First of all, Avishkar, nice to read some Afrikaans :-) Aangename kennis! Nederlands en Afrikaans zijn niet zo verschillend als taal. Zelf kom ik uit Vlaanderen.

Nathan, welcome to the forum. As you will know, this is a forum of international liberals, so you will find a wide variety of opinions, ranging from what you would call typically liberal in the US sense, more conservative opinions and perhaps even some libertarian ones. So, perhaps you could enlighten us first by illustrating what you consider to be (moderate-)conservative values. In Europe, we tend to align ourselves most of time on a social-economical scale from left to right. In the US, things like foreign policy and moral values seem to define the difference between liberals and conservatives. I am not sure if this is a correct interpretation.

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Thomas Leys
President, Jong Spirit (Flanders/Belgium)
Member of the IFLRY Shadow Human Rights Council