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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Maybe I’ve been on lemmy too long. So confused on who liberals are anymore.
it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.
progressive + capitalist = liberal
progressive + socialist = leftist
US politics is weird. Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism than capitalism. Leftist is way more extreme.
I agree that US political vocabulary is weird. But this characterization just isn't true at all.
For example, in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party is ideologically conservative. Same story with the Australian Liberal Party.
Whereas Liberalism in the US is associated with the left of the Overton Window.
The left of the US overtone window is very much right wing.
Correct, but your average yank still thinks of that as "left"
Same with the British liberal party