These terms aren’t so cut and dried in actual usage. In 2008 nearly every young person I knew would’ve self identified as a liberal and they supported the vast majority of everything you just claimed them to be objectively against.
Maybe young people of that era were just served well enough by “the left” in general that the smaller divisions didn’t matter as much.
Today Liberal yoo often means selling you Economic Liberalism under the cover of Social Liberalism. So now we need to know the differences, and have terms like Progressive, Social Democrat, Anarchist, Socialist… The Liberals today are too often cutouts for Capitalism and the free market.
These terms aren’t so cut and dried in actual usage. In 2008 nearly every young person I knew would’ve self identified as a liberal and they supported the vast majority of everything you just claimed them to be objectively against.
Maybe young people of that era were just served well enough by “the left” in general that the smaller divisions didn’t matter as much.
Today Liberal yoo often means selling you Economic Liberalism under the cover of Social Liberalism. So now we need to know the differences, and have terms like Progressive, Social Democrat, Anarchist, Socialist… The Liberals today are too often cutouts for Capitalism and the free market.