The notion that there's a "liberal way" or a "conservative way" is naive. For the most part, people are complex creatures. A lot of us fall somewhere in between liberal and conservative, and often times it's hard to tell the difference between the two. People like to separate things into neat little dichotomies, but the real world doesn't work that way. Last election cycle, Americans were given two choices, and the majority voted for President Obama. That doesn't mean that everyone who voted for Obama is a weed-smoking hippy.