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Originally Posted by cambaby
FunforOne liberalism in America is much different than liberalism where punkworld comes from. The liberals here are actually more like socialists and the liberals in europe are more like conservatives lol.
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yea, I had a response typed, but then I realised that we weren't comparing apples to apples.
The problem I see is that most American's who claim to be liberals have no understanding of the differences.
It is not a derogatory statement to say that liberals (US) believe in increased government control over private ownership in many aspects of our lives.
Many self proclaimed liberal voters in the US have incorrectly assigned conservative values to liberalism.
The most telling was the emminent domain decsion. Many GFY's thought that was Bush's decision to take over the country. That decision is the stuff that the liberals are fillabustering to keep.
I doubt many US democrats would like to give up their guns, private medical insurance, private property and private retirement accounts, but they will support the democratic party in a fight to get a person on the supreme court with values to take those things away from them.
It doesn't make since to me.