I just tried searching for “liberals” on twitter and tagging usage. Rough proportions I found: “Liberal” = Generic godless non-conservative: 35% SJW/identitarian: 25% Progressive/socialist welfare statist: 20% Big-banks-globalist neoliberal: 15% Classical liberal/Whig: 5%
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a) Someone should do this with a large corpus and a rigorous tagging methodology. b) The term is now officially a dumpster fire of wildly incompatible intensions c) This is no longer a fussy academic confusion, it’s a mass, vernacular confusion. It’s a term of rude art.
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Replying to @vgr
All this may be true, but then again it may not matter since the one thing they all have in common is that they don't vote Republican, and r.n. that's all that really matters.
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Replying to @alexqgb
I strongly suspect some flavors vote gop in significant numbers
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