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Well americans use the term liberal wrongly

Been trying to read up on this a bit more. Someone else mentioned something similar in a comment recently too. I had previously assumed "liberal" meant "more government" since people also say things like "liberal amounts of (bacon/butter/etc)" to mean "more". But seems like that is wrong or at least not how the political term works.

From reading online (mostly this quora post), it sounds like the term "liberal" in Europe came from the idea of "liberty", much like "libertarian" in the US with their main opposition in EU being existing aristocracy and theocracy. Since US didn't have these elements, both parties were originally based off EU "liberalism" concepts but have diverged over time on other points.

So yeah, sounds like the term "liberal" as it is used over here is probably a misnomer /bastardization/whatever. I don't think I'll be able to change everybody in the states to use different term but I will try to avoid on global sites going forward to avoid confusion

So guessing Europe doesn't have "Republicans" but do the terms "woke", "conservative", "left (-wing)", and "right(-wing)" still more or less have the same meaning as in US? Or is just completely different and I will need to do more reading before I get?

From stuff I see online, seems like there are many Europeans who have very similar values to myself and I'd rather not accidentally piss off the wrong people just cuz I used a local term that mean something completely different there... I want to express myself correctly so I piss off the right people using the right terms 😁