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If those kids could read they'd be very upset right now

It's cool. The neolibs allowed (and encouraged) heights of commodification of education so egregious that much of a generation has been robbed of levels of literacy that were considered "normal" in previous generations.

Thank goodness we have all these meaningful political labels to argue about instead of focusing on the 90% of policy goals we agree on.

In France liberals belong to the right

They do in America as well.
- touché
- Well I didn't understand the meme then haha

Gotta love American politics.

So, what's your choice? Centers right? Or far right? You can only pick one.

You must pick one
- Dems world be one of the right parties in just about any other county.
  They're also currently pushing far right immigration policies and have ignored doing anything to put abortion rights into law.
- This is pretty much propaganda. Left political parties do OK in Europe. The point of this post hides the fact that the Dems are not actually Left, they are just Left of the GOP. This isn't necessarily a criticism, the base voter in the US is right leaning. The Dems just work with what they've got, but that doesn't make them a party of the Left.
- It's as if collapsing politics into one dimension makes it hard to identify distinctions
  Liberalism includes the right of private property, which is definitionally at odds with leftist thought. Points for social liberalism I guess, but when social goals are viewed through the narrow lens of individuality it misses giant, glaring social structures that arguably have more impact over individual liberty than state governance does.
  "most successful left party in the world" is a contemptible assertion.

It's interesting that the modern "right-wing" (a rather nebulous term, in itself) seems to use "liberal" as a pejorative. If one is living in a Western society, I would hope that they recognize that it is generally founded on "liberal" ideals.

Generally not what happens, I can only think of one modern style democracy that does that.
- Would you mind providing examples to clarify your point? I don't want to assume meaning/intent.

I do not understand why leberals are supposed to be left wing. Given that free market concepts are far from left wing and the height of liberal ideas.

Because American democrats call themselves liberals, and it is inconceivable to them that they might share something in common with Republicans (gross)
When it's pointed out to them that property as a right is a central pillar of capital-l liberal while being the central point of contention in leftist ideology, they simply deny property is any issue at all to left wing ideology except at the fringe (gross)
It seems to me that this is how the term is used (excessive capitalism) in a lot of non US places.