Left vs Right vs Liberalism: Do the Old Labels Still Apply?
Not long ago, it was the right who championed international trade deals and the left who called for protectionism. The opposite is true today.
Conservatives policed public speech and behaviour to enforce morality. Now anyone defying social norms is more likely to be denounced and shamed by the left.
The educated and affluent used to be reliably to the right politically, while the working class leaned left. Now the reverse is true.
The term 'liberal' has come to mean something very different than it did 30 years ago, when it meant protecting and fostering individual freedom of speech and behaviour.
It seems one of the reasons we're having such trouble communicating these days is that the old labels no longer mean what they used to, and we have no consensus over what we mean when we say left or right, liberal or conservative.
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