• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s distinct flavors of liberalism in political science. For example in Classical Liberalism most modern conservatives are included because they want a democratic government.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      That’s kind of my point. Saying ‘liberal just means not conservative’ is so vague that it’s effectively meaningless.

      I also think it’s done intentionally to normalize/consolidate voting patterns for a set of people who share very little actual views or policy goals and enforce a political binary. In that way I think it’s worse than meaningless - it’s actively harmful.