> Political terms are hard. It ain't helping that the definition of these terms often hinges on where you are talking about something because the local context

> Political terms are hard. It ain't helping that the definition of these terms often hinges on where you are talking about something because the local context can be very different for these terms, like American Libertarianism vs European Libertarianism [0] Add to that how most people still only use the traditional left vs right axis, while imho something like the Nolan chart which also accounts for an authoritarian/libertarian axis for left and right, is a way superior model to account for the finer differences of political movements and especially parties. I guess "progressivism" suffers from a similar issue. In Germany, it's pretty much never used to describe a particular political movement, German Wiki describes it as a "countermovement to conservatism", but in very broad terms. I guess it's a synonym for "the left"? Which in the US traditionally has been mostly defined/associated with regulation, at least by US conservatives. [0] https://greyenlightenment.com/american-libertrianism-vs-european-libertarianism/ https://greyenlightenment.com/american-libertrianism-vs-euro...