Bluesky

Maybe Lemmy cares, but in practice Americans don't & even the left doesn't pay this as much thought as the weirdos here do. Finer distinctions don't come up all that much in the media or the press, only here. Almost like this place is an echo chamber.

Liberals are the left, conservatives are the right, and everything else is more extreme grades in those respective directions.

In North America, liberalism almost exclusively means social liberalism: progressivism, the expansion of civil & political rights, endorsement of social justice, social services, mixed economy, government intervention to address economic & social issues while emphasizing individual rights and autonomy. That's almost all the left except for the fringier, authoritarian elements.

That's the conventional breakdown in the US, it's fairly coherent, and anything else is noise that isn't speaking their language & doesn't seem to get us anywhere.