President Biden is backing Vice President Kamala Harris to take the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced Sunday. She's taken more liberal positions on health care.
That’s a shitty play on words I assume. Socially liberal is typical leftist, economically liberal is usually right wing. So, left of the president on healthcare is good if it’s socially speaking, bad if it’s in the economic sense.
If it were intentional that’d be one thing, but the author isn’t contrasting economic and social policy (health care is just economic) so I’m pretty sure he’s just confused.
They’re just using the words in the United States context because they’re talking about United States politics. This dumb “liberal isn’t left” semantic argument isn’t a US thing. It’s not using the word wrong if they and their audience use a word differently than you’d like.
“Liberal” is opposed to “Authoritarian” and just means a person who favors democracy and personal freedom. Or it should, but in America our fascist conservative party has convinced people that “liberal” is a slur and also means “progressive,” which is the actual opposite of conservative. But liberals aren’t always progressive, which is why actual American leftists, who are progressives, use the term “liberal” to derisively refer to centrists. American centrists are politically conservative but hold some socially progressive values.
The wake-up occurs when you realize that politically/economically conservative policies lead to and support socially conservative ones. One can’t actually be socially progressive but economically conservative, it’s an incoherent ideology. Americans are raised to be good at double-think and distracting ourselves so we’re able to cope with the contradiction.
The large emphasis on protection of property from the government in classical liberalism directly led to the slave trade getting as bad as it did. And still contributes to free market ideology and corporate right to make a profit on anything. There’s definitely more to liberalism than taking down monarchies.
That’s a shitty play on words I assume. Socially liberal is typical leftist, economically liberal is usually right wing. So, left of the president on healthcare is good if it’s socially speaking, bad if it’s in the economic sense.
If it were intentional that’d be one thing, but the author isn’t contrasting economic and social policy (health care is just economic) so I’m pretty sure he’s just confused.
They’re just using the words in the United States context because they’re talking about United States politics. This dumb “liberal isn’t left” semantic argument isn’t a US thing. It’s not using the word wrong if they and their audience use a word differently than you’d like.
“Liberal” is opposed to “Authoritarian” and just means a person who favors democracy and personal freedom. Or it should, but in America our fascist conservative party has convinced people that “liberal” is a slur and also means “progressive,” which is the actual opposite of conservative. But liberals aren’t always progressive, which is why actual American leftists, who are progressives, use the term “liberal” to derisively refer to centrists. American centrists are politically conservative but hold some socially progressive values.
The wake-up occurs when you realize that politically/economically conservative policies lead to and support socially conservative ones. One can’t actually be socially progressive but economically conservative, it’s an incoherent ideology. Americans are raised to be good at double-think and distracting ourselves so we’re able to cope with the contradiction.
The large emphasis on protection of property from the government in classical liberalism directly led to the slave trade getting as bad as it did. And still contributes to free market ideology and corporate right to make a profit on anything. There’s definitely more to liberalism than taking down monarchies.