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[–] [S] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The political ones, pick any used commonly in the US and they won't match up with their use in other countries.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    I've lived many years in 3 different countries in Europe.

    In none of them were Liberal politicians making policies in accordance with the ideas listed in your post.

    Worse, the more openly "Liberal" the party the harder they defended the very opposite of most of what's there.

    I literally do not know of a single "Liberal" party anywhere in the West which does not practice pretty much the opposite of that - they're all pro-privatisation, pro-deregulation and more broadly their policies generally increase the Power of Money whilst decreasing the Power of the entities controlled by the Democratically Elected representatives of the citizens (i.e. the State, which is controlled by the elected representatives of citizens).

    In practice every single on of them has policies which de facto reduce the powers controled by voting - which is equal(-ish) for everybody - and increase the powers controlled by Money and Asset Ownership - which is spectacularly unequal, with some having literally billions of times more power than others - or in other words, to replace Democracy with Oligarchy.

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