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Do any of them know what the word "liberal" actually means?

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

This confusion is working as intended.

And is exploited by tankies/fascists. By making "liberal" an insult from both the right and the left, using different definitions, they solidify in the mind if low information voters that Democrats are bad. Republicans, by being left out of this insulting, sound better by comparison.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

It doesn't even need to be an insult. It was and is an inherently anti-left strategy to correlate 'Liberal' to the Democratic Party and it is exactly what American political media does. (Hence my reference to Rush Limbaugh.) The goal is to inject confusion into the terminology to the point where your average low information voter/liberal can't differentiate between the left and the right: or a tankie and a fascist.

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