Why do you think housing crisis and wealth inequality is happening across the world? Why did the working class is turning to the right when they used to vote liberal? These issues doesn't just stop in the US as you pointed out. It is almost as if valuing private property and individualism is not the Achilles heel of liberals. And precisely private property and individualism is what liberalism was founded on.

I am going to be blunt. The difference between non-US liberals and US liberals is that the former know exactly who they are and what they want-- they are NIMBYs who don't want their property value to go down, and homeless families and children and tenants paying half their monthly salary in rent be damned. Meanwhile, US liberals shy away from admitting they are NIMBYs, but instead caricaturise the working class as racist hicks, rather than recognising they are mostly decent folks who just want roof over their heads and not living paycheck to paycheck. There are plenty of news of neighbourhoods in liberal California and New York blocking affordable housing.

A lot of people commenting here and seemingly annoyed that liberal and left are different because of said issues, is precisely what this post is about. Knowing they are different is a start.

The left and liberals are one and the same in America.

Just ask the opinion on economic issues and there is stark difference.

That’s just Russian fucking propaganda.

Is it really Russian propaganda? Or American oligarch propaganda to conflate the two terms?

I read comments from a lot of Europeans (and maybe those in Oceania, I'll be honest, I don't think much about that region because I'm from America) who seem to think they're immune from what happened in the US over the last decade plus, but it's clearly spreading, and yet it's this onslaught of shit talking, Americans are dumb, there is only one liberalism, if you're not with us you're against us.

Well, they divided the left, people lost interest, and now what was unarguably the strongest nation in the world has gone awry, but let's go ahead and wax poetic about this unrealistic perfect world that people want. The right, as much as I disagree with them, is pretty grounded in reality, and they use that to their advantage, and the left lives in Idealand, and that's a vague concept. And it's a great place, but it's not possible when you shit on people who don't match your exact idea.

I'm farting into the wind here, I've got a less than zero confidence many of these accounts exist solely to create strife, the same way they did on Reddit. This isn't a leftist Utopia, it's a fucking blender.