European here. They are absolutely not synonymous. Where I grew up liberals are the right wing, with socialists on the left and religious party on the center.
lemmingrad
Liberals are right-wingers all around the world, not only in america.
I know you probably mean well, but guess what? I do not care about how right-winger feels and I will not water down my opinions to please them.
The average westerner have order of magnitude more of a footprint than the average indian. Not to mention importations.
But I agree, a truely pro-environment candidate would probably get assasinated. Energy quotas aren't that popular.
You cannot imagine the lies I had to tell to the people while working for Applecare.
I am probably part of the issue, even though I never drove and I stopped taking planes.
How are you going to beat the vast majority of people into submission?
Not with wishful thinking and techno-optimism, that's for sure.
NATO empowered nazis in western europe. If our politics were not manipulated by the United States I am not sure we'd be allies.
How am I supposed to get energy now? :(
I mean, historically, we correct anti-social behavior using violence.
I thought the CUP23 was an historical achievement /s meanwhile people are still flying and taking their cars and shit.
My local political scene is using French, not English nor AAVE. And yet there is a which-hunt in the academia to exclude the "wokes" and the "islamo-leftists". Sorry if my proximate political realities are more important than etymology.