The government is liberal, and the rebels are conservative.....
Sorta like 1776, turned out real well.
There are few things these days that get my dander up these days, but myths about the American Revolution, and people attempting to draw anything besides very narrow, sharply defined parallels between the sit-up always leading up to the AWI and the situation today are are two of them that are high on the list.
The concept of “liberal” and “conservative” as we see it today cannot be applied to 1776 in any meaningful way whatsoever.