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Isn't a liberal left sided? I'm confused by your statement.

• ndarwincorn 7y ago
  Though it's changed recently (and even more recently is swinging back to historical usage), historically the word liberals referred to folks that are generally corporate/free-trade friendly (Reagan famously claimed something to the effect of, 'I'm a liberal, an 18th century liberal'). They also pay lip service to personal freedoms, but that tends to be through the lens of white men being the only people deserving of those, and they're generally against freedom of migration. Or rather that they care about free-trade more than free-migration because it advantages them more, despite the societal benefits of one relying on the other. In Seattle, the leftists are the AnSyn folks at the unsanctioned May Day celebration, or the WTO protesters two decades back. Further back, they're the folks organizing the general strike[1]. The liberals are the folks that put their No Re-zoning sign next to their BLM sign in the window of their Ballard home. Or more charitably, the folks that see Gates and Bezos as shining examples of what our city is capable of. In case you need it in song form, this is a song written by a leftist[2]. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw