• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      our greatest insult is to call someone a liberal

      What do you mean by this?

      In the US, we use liberal to describe a person who is left of center on the political spectrum, who is not a socialist. And we use conservative or neo-liberal to describe someone right of center.

      Is the goal to make fun of people left of center or to make fun of people right of center? I honestly cannot tell from the above conversation. This may simply be regional based confusion on my part.

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        1 year ago

        so, liberalism is decidedly right of centre. it requires buying into capitalism, but it’s not as far gone as the GOP. The US dems are left of the GOP, but right on a more absolute political meter.

        Bernie is leftist, but Biden & co are properly right of centre. Your Overton window has shifted so far to the right that a leftist politician will have a harder path than a snowball in hell.

        I say this as someone that has a neolib prime minister (Trudeau).

        Suffice to say, liberals and conservatives have the same goals, liberals just prefer a sustainable labour class.