Politics got weird because neoliberalism failed to deliver

“Gladstonian liberalism” was the original.

Which is where the main Australian right-wing political party drew its name from:

The problem isn’t with the word “liberal”, the problem is in the American understanding of it. Elsewhere in the world, “liberal” does not mean “left wing”; it only means that in the USA because your politics are distorted so far to the right that the American left were too scared to identify as socialists.

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