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"Liberal" isn't a terribly useful word in the US these days, given how wide the democratic party's non-existent platform is. I agree "progressive" isn't the mo
by drb91 9y ago
"Liberal" isn't a terribly useful word in the US these days, given how wide the democratic party's non-existent platform is.
I agree "progressive" isn't the most useful re-use of the word, but I would emphatically call it anti-nativist (or rather, pro-globalist) these days, or just "leftist".
Political labels in general are ill-fitted to static definitions. People are always stealing terms, twisting others, for demagogic needs. "liberal", "conservative", "progressive", "leftist", and "alt-right" are all pretty terrible for anything but, uhh, cultural identification, and don't indicate much of anything about you politically.