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Liberal Party names first female leader after historic Australia election loss (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sheppa@aussie.zone to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] Sheppa@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seppo detected.

Liberalism in the rest of the world means what our party is, you Americans warped the meaning to something progressive. That is unique to you.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm south East Asian living in europe, never been to the US.

[–] Sheppa@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well you need to stop acting like an American, because even Euro's know what a Liberal is.

In contrast, European liberals usually favor limited government, free trade, and adhere to economic liberalism.[10]

In the context of European politics, a liberal (when the word is used without a modifier) is generally understood to refer to a classical liberal, who may be either centre-left or centre-right. As a result, a European classical liberal usually refers to a centre-right person with prominent economically liberal tendencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_Europe

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As an European (who had lived in multiple countries in Europe) I can tell you that around here Liberal actually means Neoliberal.

Sure, they pay lip service to a selected set of inequalities (and even then, with massive selectivity and hypocrisy - for example they will at times express anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment) - whilst heavily promoting the secondarisation of the powers elected in Democracy to the power of Money (the whole point of Low Regulation and Privatisation of natural monopolies is that the State which is controlled by the citizens through their vote, comes second to Money) , often openly defending Wealth Inequality.

In Europe the real Classical Liberal ideals tend to be found not in "Liberal" parties but in the mainstream Left, specifically Social Democratic parties.