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lol what on earth is “continental liberals”? I think their equivalent in the US or UK are the libertarians.
by akie 2y ago
lol what on earth is “continental liberals”? I think their equivalent in the US or UK are the libertarians.
- zwaps 2y agoWell yes, but also not really - I mean by no means are they as libertarian as the US eqivalent.
- alphager 2y agoNo, absolutely not. Libertarians are way way more extreme than the liberals here.
- nkmnz 2y agolol no idea, I wanted to type “classical liberals”. But no, they are not at all libertarians. They are pro-western, pro-EU, no Russia-simping and no brain-deadness.
- sumuyuda 2y agoFDP is neoliberal. They are pro business and free market.
- nkmnz 2y agoThere are people I’d describe as “neoliberal” in the party, but your description of “neoliberal” is not correct in any sense that it’s used in political science. Also, you seem to be unaware of the point that the need to specify the type of “liberal” origins not due to the different flavours that we have in Europe, but due to the fact that “liberal” (without the “classical”) is understood as something in the US that would be considered slightly left of most “Social Democrats” in European terms.