You must have willful illiteracy or strong delusion: liberal is often written in opposition to the right or as synonymous with the left.

It's pretty clear with Gallup. On leftward expansion of young women, they express the spectrum of political views from liberal to conservative & from left to right as synonymous. The plot of responses to

How would you describe your political views -- very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal? % Liberal/Very liberal

shows

Women aged 18 to 29 today are more liberal than young women in the past on specific issues

which means

A Sharp Left Turn in Young Women’s Policy Preferences

The other articles consistently agree with that language.

We can see it in common language: when the right gloats about owning the libs, they're not talking about owning themselves. They're saying "the libs" are not right, ie, left. American leftists refer to themselves that way, too.

You're in serious denial to contradict plain observations smacking you over the head everyday. With that kind of invulnerability to information & inability to update beliefs according to evidence, you might as well be a religious fundamentalist: you think the same. Not a compliment. Work on yourself.

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No, you don't get to decide which personal freedoms count & which don't in what they stand for: they stand for personal freedoms.

Liberalism is broad, and the linked site on party classifications shows it's neither left nor right wing, though more specific subclassifications can be placed somewhere. Broadly

it favours free markets, free trade, limited governments, low taxes and private property (economic liberalism) as well as equality for all citizens under the law, civil rights, secularism and freedom of speech and religion.

You're neglecting subclassification

Social liberalism: Social liberal parties stress civil and human rights and favour a social market economy.

which is leftist. Leftism is the pursuit of equality/egalitarianism.

Let's not pretend conservative liberalism or neoliberalism is the only liberalism.

I don't follow.

I was simply replying to the statement:

Are these Russian and Chinese agents who want to divide "us" (who do you mean with "us"?) In the room with us right now?

With some facts about that sort of thing happening, since many people seem to be unaware and take a similar tone implying it's crazy.

Persistence is key, and there are other political offices & levels of government. Republicans didn't take power by limiting their focus to the federal presidency. Internecine battles don't necessarily promote more progressives onto ballots.

Maybe reread the question.

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