There’s also a fundamental disagreement in what the word “liberal” means, between the American usage, and the usage in the rest of the world.
American liberalism started to conflate elements of leftism, because they couldn’t openly call themselves communists, socialists, or anarchists without being unAmerican. Now the two terms are ramshackled together, and they unwittingly defend right wing values as they perceive it as an attack on their identity.
There’s also a fundamental disagreement in what the word “liberal” means, between the American usage, and the usage in the rest of the world.
American liberalism started to conflate elements of leftism, because they couldn’t openly call themselves communists, socialists, or anarchists without being unAmerican. Now the two terms are ramshackled together, and they unwittingly defend right wing values as they perceive it as an attack on their identity.