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Okay, I was so perplexed that you seem to associate liberal with free markets so hard that I looked up definitions in different languages.
As it seems in America liberal really applies to markets not people (which is such a wild 'murica moment for me) While in Europe the term means people.
In Germany for example we have "liberal" vs "autoritär" which means individual freedoms vs no individual freedoms (practical ones, not theoretical one, not that you are allowed to live in a house for example, but that you actually have the means to do so)
This has nothing to do with markets.
In the american spectrum people for some stupid Orwellian reason rebranded that term to apply to freedom of markets.
The Germans then needed a different term for that weird philosophy, which is "libertär", because it has nothing to to with the original meaning of "liberal".
So I think this is a language barrier issue, Americans redefining terms so they uphold their hyper capitalistic view on society.
Me talking that language as a foreigner didn't get that you use our term (derived from the original french "libéral") and just rebranded it for capitalistic propaganda.
Apparently in American English "egalitarian" or "liberty" is what comes closest to the German meaning of "liberal" or the original French "libéral"
So my bad I guess... Or american redefining of concepts...
let's agree to blame the br*tish
I can live with that