The word liberal has become a blade with no handle that everyone in the world holds differently when they stab at their enemy. Basic Yanks use it wrong, tankies use it as a slur against basically everyone, and pretty much only left-coms and economists use it mostly the same way, but they don’t see eye to eye on much else.

I have tried to simply drop it from my discourse since it has so many unintended connotations that can cloud your meaning.