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AdminsAreLazyID10TS t1_j8wlwsb wrote

Reply to comment by 420everytime in [OC] Which Political Groups did Former FTX Executives Donate to? by coingecko

They're all supposed to be liberals. America is a liberal democracy, ideologically speaking.

That some conservatives don't care about human rights, the separation of powers, or democracy in general anymore is another discussion.

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OldMansPissBag t1_j8wo941 wrote

Liberal and conservative are temporally relative terms in the context you’re using them. Conservatives try to conserve ideas and arguably that would include ideas like human rights, democracy, and federalism. Liberals try to push new ideas, or currently unpopular ideas, into the mainstream.

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EOwl_24 t1_j8x22x6 wrote

Liberalism just means granting more freedoms. It can pretty much be right or left, but in America liberal is an ideology between moderate and progressive

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OldMansPissBag t1_j8x9pjw wrote

That seems like a loaded definition that necessarily implies that liberalism is good in some sense.

Either way, these definitions can mean different things and there isn’t one true way of defining them because they’re used in different ways — even in America.

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420everytime t1_j8wn585 wrote

I don’t think those people are another discussion because the ultra conservative wing runs the Republican Party. It was different 30 years ago, but after republicans stole the 2000 election from Gore they let the far right run the party

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