Papers may mislead, but they shouldn't take all the blame. They print what the readers want to hear, what will sell the most papers. They are in it to make profit more then to deceive or be unbiased. A Newspaper reflects what the people want. Entertainment, Political wrestling matches, etc.

Yeah, at times it seems the parties switch, go figure. I see being conservative (opinion more then the political party.) as preserving what we have. Acting as wall or windbreaker to anything titled "change", in this way acting as the eternal windbreaker/rebel/wall.

Whether we know them or not there are absolutes as surly as there is a God. If absolutes do not exist, reality is relative to 'the eye of the beholder' no right answers, no wrong answers. Everyone is different and has their own relative views. No right, no wrong? No good, no evil? If there is no good, no evil, there is again no God. If we set our own rights and wrongs, our own realities. We are perfect by them, we have never made a mistake by them. But, Who is the one the one person in history who has never made a mistake, has never been convinced that he/she was wrong at some point and changed there ways? The quote is correct in that our view of absolutes is relative and often mistaken, but none the less they exist, and we seek them.

In political parties such as the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Republicans and the Democrats. Parties are designed to be inefficient, the most efficient government (a tyranny) is also the most dangerous. Parties are to prevent the gain of the few by bogging it down in the Bureaucracy.