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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Liberals are not left and most US democrats are liberals and not even social liberals,
which is the centrist position within capitalist democracy.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They pervert the word.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I doubt the meaning of the word was deliberately and/or consciously changed.
I blame the US two-party system for this, which has a timeline where
the two political parties did not just shift, but switched places.

The US democratic party has gone from being far-right,
to democratic socialist (left-wing), to center-right/right-wing and
currently going back to democratic socialist.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was deliberately perverted. The bourgeoisie own the government, the media, and the NGOs; and they know what they’re doing.