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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
Poll: When you use the unqualified terms “liberal” in a political conversation, what do you usually mean?
  • Classical liberal
    21.8%
  • Progressive
    62.5%
  • Socialist
    8%
  • Other (reply to specify)
    7.7%
261 votesFinal results
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
I've never, ever heard a social democrat party called liberal before, except when it's a foaming-at-the-mouth slur from someone who literally can't tell a Marxist from a Nazi. (I usually find it means centrist (i.e. neoliberal) when people are self-describing.)
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Not sure hyphenating "center" to "left" or "right" adds any meaningful granularity, but yes, I was criticizing that about the US a minute ago. Yeah, it's crazy. And doesn't reflect actual political opinion in the US even a little bit.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Yeah, no, I'd consider the default republican position far right in any respectable country (i.e. not the US!) The Dems are also rather right-wing. Bernie Sanders may be the only centrist in actual office. Well, the only well-known one...
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