In the US it’s a spectrum combining party policy and Overton Window. As you move left, you go deeper and deeper into increasingly extreme thoughts on policy regarding what we consider classic liberal topics such as social justice, corporate power, various societal and economic reforms, etc till it hits an extreme that’s considered radical to the average, the same goes for the right and classic conservative views.
Hugging the middle/mixed gray zone are the Centrist.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
On what planet are liberals “the left?”
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The world of a hundred years ago. Where I live, the liberal parties mostly want to create more freedom for companies to fuck people over.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Yep, pretty much. Liberalism serves the interests of Capital over people.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 days ago
Robespierre Did Nothing Wrong
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Liberals Left, Republicans Right, is the dichotomy of the US at least.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Overton Window, maybe, but that’s not a particularly useful categorization. Parties repredent relatively fixed views, not directions.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In the US it’s a spectrum combining party policy and Overton Window. As you move left, you go deeper and deeper into increasingly extreme thoughts on policy regarding what we consider classic liberal topics such as social justice, corporate power, various societal and economic reforms, etc till it hits an extreme that’s considered radical to the average, the same goes for the right and classic conservative views.
Hugging the middle/mixed gray zone are the Centrist.
archomrade@midwest.social 5 days ago
US liberals and US conservatives both share the core ideals of Liberalism, including the right to private property
They differ only in where they think individual liberty ends.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 days ago
USA
Liberal in the US means progressive. It’s a term referring to social issues, not economic ones.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Liberal in the USA means Liberal economically, it’s just that economic Liberalism is more progressive than the alternstive, far-right populism.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, it absolutely does not. You are lying.