A possibly broader but simpler explanation for the dichotomy of liberal and conservative is to view it as a relationship between energy and form.
The fact is that life is a constant cycle of expansion and consolidation. Nature is profuse in her children and often brutal in their education. It is that raw, organic energy bubbling up which drives life, while it is the civil and cultural forms we develop, that give it form and structure. The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement. Ultmately the heart and the head.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. We have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the forms precipitating out and further condensing and organizing them. Motor and steering.
As liberalism is about the people and opportunity for all, while conservatives know that without those structures and forms, we could not survive as a human race and civilzation.
The problem is that belief that all is one, rather than this tension of opposites.
We are reductionist creatures and in the West, have settled on this father figure lawgiver as the essence of our reality, but the fact is that a spiritual absolute would necessarily be that essence of sentience, bubbling up through life, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell.
Though no society could function by simply reveling in sentience, though our proclivities for partying suggest many would like to try, so we have adopted this icon, but it actually discredits the nature of wisdom and knowledge, which is hard won and while deserving of respect, is corroded by worship.
While belief in the deity has faded, this conflating the ideal with the absolute still casts a long shadow, as our various creeds point us toward their chosen pots of gold at the end of the narrative arc, from the bottom line, to group identity.
The fact is it’s more yin and yang, than God Almighty. Both sides of the coin are necessary, so when each side sees itself on the road to nirvana and those going the other way as misbegotten fools, there is no larger understanding, only conflict.
