Your statement suggests you don’t know what liberals are
Liberals are just people who believe in limited to no government
As Trump is authoritative they wouldn’t support him but that doesn’t mean they side with leftists. And you’ll find authoritative leftists, like those that complain about Liberals
This is a great example of the political illiteracy in this country, it’s not just MAGA, U.S. citizens are stupid as fuck en masse and don’t have any idea what they believe for the most part.
Maybe Lemmy cares, but in practice Americans don’t & even the left doesn’t pay this as much thought as the weirdos here do.
Finer distinctions don’t come up all that much in the media or the press, only here.
Almost like this place is an echo chamber.
Liberals are the left, conservatives are the right, and everything else is more extreme grades in those respective directions.
In North America, liberalism almost exclusively means social liberalism: progressivism, the expansion of civil & political rights, endorsement of social justice, social services, mixed economy, government intervention to address economic & social issues while emphasizing individual rights and autonomy.
That’s almost all the left except for the fringier, authoritarian elements.
That’s the conventional breakdown in the US, it’s fairly coherent, and anything else is noise that isn’t speaking their language & doesn’t seem to get us anywhere.
This is just the lie you’ve been fed by neoliberals for the last 40 years so they could take everything we’ve worked for. There’s a reason why the Democrats lost control of the working class. It’s this exact mindset.
See?
Nonsense: there is no lie over a difference in words.
The fact remains that in the US liberal is used broadly to encompass nearly all the left & folk here are arguing over words, ie, a merely verbal dispute.
Liberal doesn’t mean what you say it means in the US: it doesn’t mean classical liberalism, conservative liberalism, or neoliberalism (who are called conservative here).
Modern usage & definitions explains it.
While Democrats have lost the working class, it’s more over the loss of unions, the party’s realignment with middle class professionals, & declining populist appeal than with the meanings of words that decide whether “a leftist is a liberal”.
Lemmy split hairs between leftists & liberals as if that gets us anywhere.
Liberals kill leftists all the fucking time
Their favorite pastime even.
Been doing it so long they proved all the leftists right about everything and half of them turned into fascists even
Your statement suggests you don’t know what liberals are
Liberals are just people who believe in limited to no government
As Trump is authoritative they wouldn’t support him but that doesn’t mean they side with leftists. And you’ll find authoritative leftists, like those that complain about Liberals
I can assure you that in the US of A, that’s a distinction without a difference & we just call the left liberals.
This is a great example of the political illiteracy in this country, it’s not just MAGA, U.S. citizens are stupid as fuck en masse and don’t have any idea what they believe for the most part.
No that’s just what liberals and their conservative friends like to say so that they can ignore leftists.
Maybe Lemmy cares, but in practice Americans don’t & even the left doesn’t pay this as much thought as the weirdos here do. Finer distinctions don’t come up all that much in the media or the press, only here. Almost like this place is an echo chamber.
Liberals are the left, conservatives are the right, and everything else is more extreme grades in those respective directions.
In North America, liberalism almost exclusively means social liberalism: progressivism, the expansion of civil & political rights, endorsement of social justice, social services, mixed economy, government intervention to address economic & social issues while emphasizing individual rights and autonomy. That’s almost all the left except for the fringier, authoritarian elements.
That’s the conventional breakdown in the US, it’s fairly coherent, and anything else is noise that isn’t speaking their language & doesn’t seem to get us anywhere.
This is just the lie you’ve been fed by neoliberals for the last 40 years so they could take everything we’ve worked for. There’s a reason why the Democrats lost control of the working class. It’s this exact mindset.
See? Nonsense: there is no lie over a difference in words.
The fact remains that in the US liberal is used broadly to encompass nearly all the left & folk here are arguing over words, ie, a merely verbal dispute. Liberal doesn’t mean what you say it means in the US: it doesn’t mean classical liberalism, conservative liberalism, or neoliberalism (who are called conservative here). Modern usage & definitions explains it.
While Democrats have lost the working class, it’s more over the loss of unions, the party’s realignment with middle class professionals, & declining populist appeal than with the meanings of words that decide whether “a leftist is a liberal”.
I used to think so, too, until I gave it some thought.