Why do americans refer to the left as “liberal”?

Why do americans and brits call socialists/progressives/democrats Liberals? When thats like the opposite of the definition of the term liberalism? To me it seems to have a lot more in common with american conservatism than it does with the democratic party, and most everwhere else in the world the world the term means induvidual liberty/freedom/minimal goverment

It's like saying kleenex.

it's just ingrained in our lexicons now.

Clinton is centre left.

But it just doesn’t make any sense to use the word in that context

Because Republicans are idiots, is the short answer.

Liberals and Democrats do not confuse the two. Neither like the big-government, big-debt nonsense of Republicans, so Republicans view both as "the enemy," so can't tell the difference between them.

To anyone who isn't retardedly-right-wing. the differences between Democrats, Liberals, Progressives and Socialists are obvious. Go read literally anything but Sup Forums or its equivalent.

Commies, pretending to be socialists, infiltrated the left in waves--suspiciously corresponding closely with the waves of feminism.

Liberals are not liberal anymore. They are ruthless authoritarians who will break 5 of your ribs for allowing grass clippings to blow onto their yard.

But thats what I mean, liberalism by its very definition is an anti-authoritarian ideology

It confuses me why anyone would label liberalism “Left-Wing” tbf

Yeah it's stupid. Reactionary scum always call me liberal. I hate liberals too.

Communism and socialism are interchangeable. Go read some Lenin.

>Communism and socialism are interchangeable.

I obviously know that. I was speaking about stupid dems who do do not.

"pretending"...all socialism is cancer,bro.

Just try to ignore their retardation maybe they will go away.

What a retarded image. Trump has complained FAR more about winning than Clinton has about losing.

That is a great picture.

Thanks user

>Delusional leftists

She and Trump are both centre right.

Well personally, I call them wankers.

>hillary complains less about losing than trump does on winning
Have you not picked up the fact that she wrote a book blaming people for why she lost the election?

Do you also quote the dictionary definition of feminism too? Connotation matters as much as denotation.

American leftists aren't leftists, they're neoliberals who occasionally virtue signal. They'd be considered moderate or slightly right in most other countries.

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why do dutch people always fall for bait?

Language is being destroyed by cultural Marxism.
End of story. Fight back while you can.

The thing with that is is that feminism is a movement, not a political ideology, feminism was a movement that wanted equal rights for women in contrast to men, now they have that, so the movement should evaporate because its achieved its goals

Idiot.

I noticed you also go balls deep in metric, another cultural Marxist plot to obfuscate our past.

Man is the measure of all things.

> Why do americans and brits call socialists/progressives/democrats Liberals?
Because their elites are freemasons. And they like to LARP as if they are giving others some kind of freedom. Look at Soros. Anything he does is always called "free".

What "liberal" really means is being nationalist.
In nation as body of people, that rules itself.
With certain restrictions to maintain the body metabolism. i.e. you do not have absolute freedom (like freedom to kill anyone), you have "rights" instead.

Left, that was initially a mistake, is turned to be anti-liberal. They want to destroy the national metabolism and cast nations into chaos. They promote freedoms, that destroy the nations metabolism like voting rights for single mothers, profitable divorces and GRAS-mandate for the use of atrazine. Or rights for abortions in which father has absolutely no authority. Or rights for foreign terrorists.

Before we, as humans, will make any step further, left and all it`s products must be dealt with.
It`s either that, or the civilization will end right now.

Clinton is left opportunist, that turned out to be pure left.

Trump is right populist. That turned out to be great.

I've stopped using it myself and just call them Leftists. They hate everything to do with liberty and to break the conditioning and recognize them for the tyrants they are, people need to stop associating the idea of freedom with them.

>clinton
>pure left
hoo boy. How exactly do you arrive at that given she served as sec. of state in a neo-lib (centre right) government?
Lenin is rolling in his grave at what his countrymen have become

Lenins father was State Counsellor.
Wonder why his sons where not monarchists dekiru kana~ desu.

I meant
> baka

Also my country is not lenins country. Fuck him and (you) too.