strictly speaking, "liberal" is term that means two things. 1. the leftist politics of constitutionalism in western europe. this refers to policies for the common man, and it defines freedoms that are protected. as in, the government cannot rescind them. there was some philosophy at the time used to defend the equality of common man, although it's stirred a lot of conflict in the present day. tabula rasa, decartes, locke. 2. the mercantilism of british economic policy defined by adam smith. this is considered "liberal economics", but it clearly benefits the elite the most and is now known as globalism. using the aforementioned definition of leftism, these "liberal economics" should be right wing.
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