Is the Definition of a Conservative in the American Context?

i find i have to ascertain what they mean by liberal or conservative. Otherwise conversation can be fruitless and frustrating. Am, what is your idea of a conservative in the american context? Or is the term so fluid and so, i don't know, subject to fancy. What say you? Well, that a, you know, the term conservative, the meaning has shifted over time. I think conservatism has now beeng transformed into something very different than it was a 20, 30 years ago. And when i use the word liberal, i mean this as part of the argument in my book, a liberal has gotten distorted as wella.