• i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      By definition liberalism wants to take away power from current governments.

      Not sure if you are from outside of the US? Have heard the term “liberal” here vs elsewhere means different things

      In the US, “liberals” (with the exception of anarchists) generally want MORE government. Things like more welfare and aid programs, more government regulations, some want government owned business, etc.

      We usually call people who don’t want as much government as “Libertarians”.

        • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Yeah, in the states, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “Democrat”, and “progressive” all mean pretty much the same thing.

          And their opposite number are “right-wing”, “Republican”, or “conservative”.

          Our system kinda sucks TBH and I feel like most people are sick of both parties but just vote for whoever they feel is the lesser evil since the system is rigged. Literally… they make it a pain for 3rd party to even get a spot at the televised presidential debates, so it’s been between the same 2 parties for several generations.

          How is it wherever you are?

      • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.comOPEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I actually wish we could have different parties. If we had a name change along with it, wouldn’t hurt my feelings. Then again, I’m one of the weird Americans that is both against American progressives/liberals but doesn’t mind the metric system (and really hates imperial units of volume in particular).

        I even wonder why they are still not driving on the left side of the road

        https://www.rd.com/article/why-drive-on-different-sides-of-the-road/

        According to above, Britain actually started out on left side of the road long before we got around to things. Sounds like it was an adaptation brought about from horse-drawn carriages without seats (driver would ride horse on rear left to keep his gun hand free) and was later reinforced by Henry Ford’s model T having the driver’s seat on the left side of the vehicle. So I guess for once we could ask why you guys are still using the old system? 😉