“Liberal” doesn’t mean “left wing trending towards communist” in American politics either; the problem in America is that the actual Nazi fascist party has spent decades grooming the population to think that the right-of-center-capitalist party are the literal authoritarian-yet-anarcho-communists plants from Satanland aka anywhere but the safe, persecution-free United States

So even when we are like “we should be more progressive and fix things!” The farthest we can get is Liberalism.

Which, by the way, may Americans who call themselves liberals would find they’re far to the left of actual American liberalism as well but shhh that’s also gotta be a lie because America and Americans BAD