• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    lefties love to hate on liberals for whatever reason. Even though the definition of liberal is not very specific and encompassing.

    I still haven’t quite figured out why. Idk if people just don’t broadly understand the definition of liberalism in a political context, or if it’s just “hurr durr not lefty bad” shenanigans.

    on another note, if anybody in the comments has any expansive explanation to this, please, indulge my curiosity.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      In the U.S., it’s from anger at the Democratic party. Mostly anger at, “when they go low, we go high,” “reach across the aisle,” “we need a strong Republican party,” tolerance paradox, and that kind of stuff. Liberal economics isn’t really compatible with leftism either.

    • antiykns@thelemmy.club
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      5 months ago

      Liberals are right-winger in most of the world. Only backward countries like britain still have conservative. We had the intelligence of shooting them a long time ago,