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Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me?
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It's an insult in the US because the liberals in the Democratic party are considered to be on the right side of the political spectrum. Today's liberals are seen as pushing the same stuff Republicans were pushing in the era of Reagan and Bush. Progressives in the party don't really get much of a voice therefore they disparage the liberals that keep pushing the Overton window further and further right.
This is really just factually inaccurate though. Modern US liberals are actually further to the left than they were during the bush era, and are nowhere near as far right as the bush administration. (not sure about Reagan because that was before my time but I suspect it was similar). Democrats during that era were just coming off of the very centrist Clinton administration, and have gradually been moving left ever since.
The difference is the people criticizing liberals have become much more numerous and moved much further to the left than core democrats. Which is largely a good thing but I think it would help them be more strategic if they actually understood these things clearly.
Genuinely useful. I keep getting called a liberal online as a slur whenever I discuss politics, mostly by the accounts of people who could very well have been on a Russian payroll but are probably just deranged.
I was wondering what the fuck they were on about.
Those types are fun. If pressed on LGBTQ issues, you'll see the "progressive" front start to crack
Gotcha, so it means fake leftists almost? Does it imply someone is even further right than a current "centrist"? Or more like, "the center is right wing at this point, and so much so that even the Dems who are just left of center are still on the right [but therefore less than centrists still]"? This is not meant to be obstinate, your response was just very helpful and I want to bracket in on where folks consider liberals to be on the political spectrum so I can understand/use it properly.
You might look up the term "neoliberalism" as I think there is a lot of overlap with the information you're seeking and those who would be called liberal perjoratively.
Neoliberalism is itself a postliberal framework that rejects many central tenets of classical liberalism.
Or “tankie”
Nah tankies are just people who push pro-China and pro-Russia propaganda. I haven't even ever seen one of them actually talk about communism.