When did Republican=conservative / Democrat=liberal start?

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Both are mearly factions of each party

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Democrats have not be liberal for a while. Modern Progressives are totalitarian shite bags.

neither conservative nor liberal has any real meaning anymore

they have both just become monikers for what we hate about the "other side"

well this I know:

democrats <> conservative

so there's that

I think it was the Democratic party's embrace of civil rights for blacks and racial desegregation / racial equality.

That drove conservatives and Conservatives away from the Democratic party and associated "Democrat" with liberal / progressive. The Civil Rights Movement was a liberal movement pushed by liberals and primarily populated by liberals.

Northerners such as the three young civil rights workers who were murdered in MS traveled to the South to support the racial equality movement and to conservative Southern Democrats were "meddling Liberals". To be in favor of racial desegregation was to be "liberal". And it is during this time that Conservatives began using the pejorative label "Lib-n*gger lovers".

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Bernie. Yeah that's a liberal

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Bernie isn't a liberal. He is a leftist.

A liberal is someone like Dave Rubin

FDR and the New Deal and reinforced by LBJ and the Great Society. Both conglomerations of socialist policies.

First, the definition of the words "liberal" and "conservative" had to be hijacked to pretty much focus on the social version.

Republicans have not been fiscally conservative for over 30 years. They pretty much abandoned that ideal to focus entirely on being socially conservative.

Democrats aren't nearly as socially liberal as other countries (being downright socially conservative is several other first world countries). They are, however, most assuredly fiscally liberal.

These words, however, made it easy to demonize the other side.
Liberals were "changing for the sake of change", trying to "impose that change on others"
Conservatives are "against change for the sake of stagnation", trying to "impose a state non-change on others".

In other words, the two parties flourished because they found new words to demonize the other side. Focus on preaching that hate, instead of offering solutions (which does happen on occasion, but tends to be the exception).

It doesn't help that words get assigned to admittedly moving targets. What would the idea of a "liberal" and a "conservative" mean to a Founding Father? To Lincoln? To FDR? Heck, to Reagan? In our context, or theirs? How far back in the past before a modern day conservative is considered liberal? How about fiscally?

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they have both just become monikers for what we hate about the "other side"

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Since I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of speech, I am more liberal than most Democrats and people who claim to be liberal today.

I voted for Trump.

The people who claim to be liberal today are actually nothing like real liberals. Neither are the people who claim to be conservative.

I just never got how Liberal became the catchall for anyone well wasn't conservative.

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Left =/= liberal

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Everything you've said so far is incorrect. But I'm not in the mood to do a dissertation. We can start with one simple example.

Give me a law (bill) that a leftist would support and a liberal would oppose.