> liberal on social issues, staunchly conservative on regulation.
That's what liberal actually means. To be liberal in both areas it to be a progressive.
That's what liberal actually means. To be liberal in both areas it to be a progressive.
> Liberal economics means fewer regulations, less federal planning, etc.
Not in America, here we call that conservative. In America, liberal economics mean more central planning and government control and more regulations.
So you're actually agreeing vigorously with the guy to whom you're responding.
They are under the American meaning of the word liberal, you just don't understand what liberal means in America. You are agreeing with me whether you understand it or not. What you mean by liberal, we call conservative or "classical liberal".
Liberal here doesn't mean what it means in the rest of the world.
> In India and Pakistan, for example, "conservative" just means holding on to traditional religious values.
That's not what it means here.
No it isn't, and in the era of social justice warriors, it's relevance is on the rise.