Comment by woooooo
3 days ago
It's standard among self-described leftists, to distinguish themselves from establishment liberals.
I'm not even very far left and I identify with the term because party leadership are all 80yo and out of touch.
3 days ago
It's standard among self-described leftists, to distinguish themselves from establishment liberals.
I'm not even very far left and I identify with the term because party leadership are all 80yo and out of touch.
"Liberal" is an epithet here too (I'm a liberal, for whatever that's worth).
For what it's worth back, a lot of the opposition towards "establishment libs" is based more on optics than policy IMO.
Voters feel ripped off by the establishment. Running on "we're the establishment and we're here to help" is a loser, and letting Trump be the rebel is malpractice.
I am a libertarian (anarcho-capitalist) but people do not know the differences and similarities to liberal, because both has the prefix "liber".
Both ideologies evolved from the same source of classical liberalism, and still share plenty in common today.
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