arktikos02@lemmy.world to asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat is something you think leftists are not ready to hear but need to hear it?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something you think leftists are not ready to hear but need to hear it?arktikos02@lemmy.world to asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
That’s leftists. Not Democrats. Anyone to the left of Democratic socialist. So not Bernie Sanders either.
minus-squareVeltoss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoBut this is not at all how the vast majority of people use the terms. In a time where people can barely communicate as it is, at what point is it harmful to stick to definitions barely anyone still uses in the US?
minus-squareirmoz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoThat just isn’t true. People use liberal to mean in support of a liberal party, in this case, democrats. If someone uses liberal to mean socialist, then they are just incorrect. The ideas are incompatible.
Liberals are right wing.
But this is not at all how the vast majority of people use the terms. In a time where people can barely communicate as it is, at what point is it harmful to stick to definitions barely anyone still uses in the US?
That just isn’t true. People use liberal to mean in support of a liberal party, in this case, democrats.
If someone uses liberal to mean socialist, then they are just incorrect. The ideas are incompatible.