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Obligatory, fuck Spez
I mean, I can’t disagree more in terms of my lived experience. You’re surely taking a polisci graduate-level view of these terms and that’s probably exactly what the books say, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that the freedom, liberty, and justice we had in real life, any social progress at all in the last fifty years was due to liberal efforts, which included those who supposedly despise liberals now.
Liberal and conservative ideologies ARE different. If you want to be an faux-academic absolutist and pretend helping trump win is some kind of socialist or anti-capitalist win, you’re crazy.
The issue at hand is the difference between the colonial terms "liberal" and "conservative" vs the actual political terms that refer to old parties "Liberal" and "Conservative"
Liberals have a right-wing ideology, liberals do not
Is it stupid? Yes
They're just two different words that happen to be written with the exact same letters in the exact same order.
Let the confusion.... dissipate !! 🪄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Yeah, I wondered that too, but the rest of the context is solidly American-facing. I don't think there's very much confusion over the terms.