cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71300076
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Here in the UK, we have the Liberal Democrats party, who are kind of centre-left. I know that in Australia, for example, their "Liberal" party is basically the equivalent of our Conservatives, i.e. centre-right to full-right. I guess I just grew up with "liberal" meaning "leftish".
This is the problem with words having both an academic definition and a colloquial one, which oftentimes have no correlation to each other beyond being the same word.
The ideology known as "Liberalism", from which the political moniker "liberal" originates, is by definition a center-right ideology. It has no bearing on what different political parties want to dub themselves. Those names are arbitrary and not bound by the political definition of terms.