Do they mean liberals in the USian sense or the regular one? Because in almost every other country “liberals” are right-wing free market types, rather than lukewarm non-communist progressives.
In post USSR countries it means those who lick the boots of US and EU while saying they need more privatization and austerity while also supporting LGBT groups 🤣
That’s true, but at least they paint themselves and lay lip service to social-democracy, anti-racism and the like, even if they do nothing.
For reference in Brazil those who either claim the term “liberal” or are called that is what you’d call “libertarians”. And in other countries where there’s an welfare state to denationalise, it’s the parties who want to denationalise those.
Even if actual leftist groups correctly identify that US liberals are effectively the same, the term still means different things. It’s how you get expressions like “bleeding-heart liberal” as if liberalism was in any way related to activism. It’s a neverending source of international confusion for Yankees.
Do they mean liberals in the USian sense or the regular one? Because in almost every other country “liberals” are right-wing free market types, rather than lukewarm non-communist progressives.
In post USSR countries it means those who lick the boots of US and EU while saying they need more privatization and austerity while also supporting LGBT groups 🤣
No that’s what the liberal politicians are here in the States too, though they like to paint themselves otherwise
That’s true, but at least they paint themselves and lay lip service to social-democracy, anti-racism and the like, even if they do nothing.
For reference in Brazil those who either claim the term “liberal” or are called that is what you’d call “libertarians”. And in other countries where there’s an welfare state to denationalise, it’s the parties who want to denationalise those.
Even if actual leftist groups correctly identify that US liberals are effectively the same, the term still means different things. It’s how you get expressions like “bleeding-heart liberal” as if liberalism was in any way related to activism. It’s a neverending source of international confusion for Yankees.
I see! Thank you for clearing this up for me