• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      Mainstream America defines liberal as left and conservative as right. They are absolutely not familiar with neo liberalism, classic liberalism, or liberalism as a 1700’s era political philosophical conversation.

      To be fair, the idea that “the left” can’t be liberal is itself pretty complicated.

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      I’ll make it easy for everyone, the left starts at anticapitalism.

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        No, this seems a useful point to make. The rightward unforgivable sin that liberals make is their commitment to capitalism. It’s like vegetarians and vegans would seem to be bedfellows but vegans can not forgive vegetarians for not going the full rational distance.

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      The terms “left” and “right” are meaningless anyway and should be aboloshied. It just entrenches thoughtless “us versus them” tribalism instead of making politics about actual policies and issues and how people are affected.