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By liberal, I mean free-market liberalism (like FDP in Germany). I'm European. It didn't occur to me that people in the U.S. would misunderstand and think "liberal" means "left". Is that the miscommunication that's happening here?

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Likely. I live in the US, and the terms "liberal" and "conservative" are used to mean left/right in US politics. Thus, in US politics terms, your comment says "A left-leaning newspaper reports on the left-leaning WEF...".

Right, to Americans, "liberalism" -> "classical liberalism", and "globalist neoliberalism" -> "liberalism".

I'd say that's incorrect, to the vast majority of Americans "liberalism" means left/progressive, that's simply what the word has evolved into in the mainstream. You use "classical liberalism" when you mean "classical liberalism" unless you're talking to some kind of economic historian or libertarian pedant and it has more context.

Ha, yes. However I’m a New Zealander in New Zealand.

What do you make of this, then? Third row, on the right side:

https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?class_year=&pag...

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