No, I’m in the UK, but there are some people here who use it in the American sense, like my parents. At one point liberals were seen as being in between the socialists and conservatives, but that was before Tony Blair and Nick Clegg moved their parties to the right.
Some things, although not a lot. I clearly remember this from a few years ago
I cant see comments there anymore but I remember it got criticised by people who assumed it had something to do with Objectivism. Mutual Aid must have been one of Ayn Rands favourite books. </sarcasm>
Other than that, I can’t think of examples. I think that when it does happen it’s most likely to be something from Cory Doctorow, and I think Mark Frauenfelder has written about Reason articles while also saying he doesn’t agree with their economic views.
But am I doing that? The American definition of liberal is so broad it stops just short of meaning “someone who has a political view”. Let’s look at that Political Compass chart of the Republicans and Democrats who are after presidential nominations again.
For reference, when I do the test I consistently come in the four squares in the bottom left
corner. Who’s stink am I rotting in? Bernie’s? Hillary’s? The Guardian? The Morning Star? Almost none of the national press (Morning Star excepted) here in the UK stray outside of the comfort zone of Labour/LibDem/Tory/Ukip, who are all in the top Right quadrant (Jeremy Corbyn might be moving out of it but there is a lot of inertia from the New Labour types). I actually used to have an online subscription to the Financial Times, but I can’t afford it anymore and I don’t expect that to change unless Jeremy Corbyn wins the next UK General Election, or Scotland leaves the United Kingdom and I move back North.
My political views are something like this. I don’t know about the Democrats, but expressing those views would be a rather fast way to get yourself kicked out of the Labour Party here in the UK.
I do read a lot which is far to the right from my perspective. Just because I don’t read some of the more extreme views, because of a likelihood of them causing mental health problems, it doesn’t mean that I am rotting in the stink of my own reflections
