Sorry to be ignorant but what is the difference between a Libertarian and a modern Liberal. I thought they were the same thing?
In 2020, "liberals" in america have very little to do with the original meaning of the word which meant "in favor of freedom".
If there is one thing the liberals in the US have very little care about it is preserving freedom.
It's the main reason they got spanked by trump in '16.
It has very little to do with the European understanding of "liberalism", which is what americans call "libertarians".
> If there is one thing the liberals in the US have very little care about it is preserving freedom
You can't spend more than 2 seconds researching modern liberalism without civil liberties coming up.
Funny :D
>You can't spend more than 2 seconds researching modern liberalism without civil liberties coming up.
Civil liberties != individual freedom
They actually are more often than not antinomic.
No, it doesn't.
Though it overlaps with a common American use of “socialist” to mean anyone outside of the far-right. Most American “liberals” are center-right corporate capitalists, which is also the narrow sense of “liberal” in much of the world.
> In 2020, "liberals" in america have very little to do with the original meaning of the word which meant "in favor of freedom".
This is false, and even more than just being liberal in this vague sense, most American “liberals” and a great share of American “conservatives” are adherents to ideologies which evolved fairly directly from 18th century classical liberalism, differing largely in whether they view the immediate goals of 18th century liberals as having been terminal or steps in the direction of the desired goal.
Your statement is true but Democrats, who call themselves liberals, are not that. They are the most conservative party. They're much more conservative than Republicans on most issues. For example, ideas about "science" or "nature" for example.
We're pretty much in a double-speak world right now.