Are we suppose to Thank the europeans for Dumping their Worst to the "New World"? Are We?

In the beginning was a language that bound a group of people so that they could establish common understandings. Rules were then gradually set based on the common understanding of what is right and what is wrong.

U.S. politics is odd because we have Socialists pretending to be Capitalists and the woke crowd is busy creating Newspeak.

You omitted the word "progressive". I have seen it used as the opposite of conservative but it can mean just about anything as well.
In the UK we talk about political parties being right of centre or left of centre. The Conservatives are considered to be right of centre but have carried out some socialist programmes such as aiding business during the pandemic lockdown and assissting payment of fuel bills when gas and electricity prices rose dramatically.
The Labour party are considered to be left of centre but have moved to the right since their inception.
One thing is certain though. The centre in the UK is in an entirely different place to the centre in the USA.

In the beginning was a highly evolved social animal. Descended from several generations of species of highly evolved social animals, with both individual desires and social instincts.

A story.

" In the cave that night, it was warm around the fire, but the food had run out and the apes were near to starving. They knew that outside it was cold and the snow storm, which blew hard, had a long way still to go. Yet outside they also knew, some migrating animals would have perished on the ice of the frozen lake, a few days walk away. Easy meat, if you got there before the wolves and eagles, who, as yet, would also be sheltering from the storm.

Some of the apes felt hunger greatly and were impatient, they went early, and died in the cold. Some got it just right and leaving on the last edge of the storm, they found the food and survived. But when they returned to the cave, they found some of those who were too were afraid of the cold and lingered too long had grown too weak, and they died too. "

You have balance instincts like fear of the cold and hunger, that is what they are for. The need to balance them, is therefore hard wired into our systems, to help us make value judgments. And that applies to the social instincts and the self serving desires as well. Conflict is built in to our brains and for good reason.

Story two.

"Some apes were stuck in a high tech tent in the arctic snows, and they were running out of food and fuel. The leader, who had been on a survival course, said that it was always best to stay where you were. So they all did. Not even a couple of them went out to try and find the food dump.

And they all died. "

Often natural instincts can be modified and overwritten by cultural training, sometimes that works well, and sometimes it does not. While often it fails completely, especially when some cultural institutions, like political groups and religions, with hidden agendas, push for extremes and absolutes.

The liberal is for the community banding together to protect their common interests against the rights of individuals who put their own personal, selfish welfare above those of the group. Like a referee in a sports contest, regulations are there to make sure everybody plays by the same rules. Without them, it would be the Law of the Jungle, survival of the fittest.

Actually, U.S. liberals fight for freedom and equality for everyone while U.S. conservatives only fight for rights that help them while working against freedom and equality for everyone else. In U.S. news right now you can find numerous articles about conservatives working to ban book, ban drag queens, remove health care rights for women and trans people, and trying to turn their religious views into laws.

In the history of the U.S. pretty much any time anyone is demanding equality you can almost always guarantee that it's conservatives who are standing in the way.

Meanwhile, its liberals who have fought for the rights for women, gays, minorities, and workers.

Conservatives try to villainize gay, trans, and black people and claim that these groups are a danger to children. Meanwhile the biggest threat to children in the U.S. is guns yet decade after decade conservatives not only do nothing but fight to weaken gun laws.

Maybe your definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" are accurate for Europe but you have a skewed view of what those words mean in the U.S.

Not just Europeans think America is in a world of its own. So do the rest of us. It comes from this America-centric view they have, an unfortunate outcome of the end of WW2 and America's sense of omnipotence despite having lost every war since WW2 and its repeated disastrous interventions both overt and covert in the world. It amazes me how indifferent most Americans are to the international perspective on their decline and unravelling over recent years. They just don't care. The US bubble is big and thick.

On the definitions you mentioned, yes American use of terms like liberal and libertarian are decidedly wierd and make little sense in any classical western left- right, or progressive- conservative spectrum. But there's little point arguing with them. I do see the benefit of differentiating between progressive left politics, and Conservatism, but these days there's little link between classical conservatism and the reactionary authoritarianism that now passes for so- called conservatism. As for Libertarianism I regard the word as a farce. I ask self- described Libertarians to tell me what it means, and they um and ah and ramble nonsense. It's a feel- good word, and like most feel- good words it can mean anything so ultimate it means nothing. Finally, it is recognised that American obsession with individualism ( a la Ayn Rand- ism ) has now devolved into toxic and destructive individualism, with the results that we see everyday, with piles of shot bodies and regression to fear and violence that would make 1880s Tombstone blush.

I'm leaning toward the Progressive side of the Liberal identity and do not agree that community was our beginning. In fact, that doesn't even make sense because individuals develop and secure personal interests before they get into community activities. I ultimately want govt to maintain vital human functions so that our tax dollars are doled out by need and fairness. Private charities do not have the same level of verification and interest-free involvement so I prefer that all public aid go through that process. As for a contract you are also wrong. Thomas Hobbes wrote about why we make such an agreement and States Of America most certainly operates on that agreement.

I'm an American libertarian, and I don't identify as conservative. That said, I think the fuss over labels and titles is beyond absurd, and only seeks to keep people divided and disgruntled with each other.