"the battle is ... between conservatisim and liberalism".

No, there is no intrinsic conflict between conservatism and liberalism, except when these are used as party labels (ie big letters rather than small). Any sane human being is capable of being conservative, liberal, radical, progressive, reactionary, revolutionary, according to circumstances and what they think needs to be done at any time and place.

None of those labels in themselves determine how you think about the practical issues such as what needs to be done, who ought to do what, and how the resources we share on this planet ought to be allocated. Those are the kinds of things about which "the battle" centres - and attaching those kinds of labels to the different sides just confuses matters.