text: The Examiner will go to any length to justify its conservative ideology. In fact, the move to independence and the establishment of a government based on a constitution was a radical move--not as radical as the French Revolution--but radical nevertheless. And in the political alignments of its time, a liberal move, not conservative. Further, most of the major changes that flowed from that initial liberal revolution are liberal themselves, with conservatives usually in opposition. The end of slavery, the establishment of a national bank, and the eventual financial system that made the industrial revolution in this country possible, the concept of a social safety net, the union movement, our entry into world politics, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, the emancipation of the LGBT community were and are liberal in their orientation. Conservatives have a very difficult time coming with an equivalent list of accomplishments.