Informal, modern society understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.
And in the entire rest of the world outside of the US. See the Liberal Democrats of the UK for example. Or, like, formal/academic discussion even within the US. John Locke was a classical liberal, Ronald Reagan was a neoliberal, etc.
It's only informally, when the right started using it as a scare word, that people started using it differently, and that was relatively recent considering the history of the word.
Righto, I have changed my comment to reflect your input.
Informal, modern society understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.
And in the entire rest of the world outside of the US. See the Liberal Democrats of the UK for example. Or, like, formal/academic discussion even within the US. John Locke was a classical liberal, Ronald Reagan was a neoliberal, etc.
It's only informally, when the right started using it as a scare word, that people started using it differently, and that was relatively recent considering the history of the word.
Righto, I have changed my comment to reflect your input.