Why do Americans confuse the term “Liberal” with “Socialist” and other references to the left?
As a result, Americans have a different definition of what a Socialist is than the everyone else on the planet. This means that Americans don’t recognize it when the Republican Party acts like socialists. They also don’t recognize it when the Democrats act in a way that the rest of the planet calls fiscally conservative. American parties also have another problem: They define themselves more in what they oppose than what they support. As a result, we have “conservatives” who, rather than conserving what is good about America, try to return us to what the Founders rebelled against. We also have “liberals” who have completely
