A surge in young women who identify as politically liberal in recent years goes beyond the label, extending particularly to their stances on the environment and abortion.
Values and Beliefs survey finds that Americans are currently about equally likely to say their views are conservative (32%), moderate (32%) or liberal (33%) on social issues
Conservative and liberal students at two small Midwest universities have been meeting every month to talk politics, while practicing listening and avoiding making assumptions about the other side.
I’ll take NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox, and the way people actually talk around me over online zealots in denial about shit printed right in front of them.
You must have willful illiteracy or strong delusion: liberal is often written in opposition to the right or as synonymous with the left.
It’s pretty clear with Gallup.
On leftward expansion of young women, they express the spectrum of political views from liberal to conservative & from left to right as synonymous.
The plot of responses to
How would you describe your political views – very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal? % Liberal/Very liberal
shows
Women aged 18 to 29 today are more liberal than young women in the past on specific issues
which means
A Sharp Left Turn in Young Women’s Policy Preferences
The other articles consistently agree with that language.
We can see it in common language: when the right gloats about owning the libs, they’re not talking about owning themselves.
They’re saying “the libs” are not right, ie, left.
American leftists refer to themselves that way, too.
You’re in serious denial to contradict plain observations smacking you over the head everyday.
With that kind of invulnerability to information & inability to update beliefs according to evidence, you might as well be a religious fundamentalist: you think the same.
Not a compliment.
Work on yourself.
Americans? NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox didn’t get that memo. Maybe online echo chambers that like dividing the left?
Reality check.
articles using liberal as left
How One Oregon Activist Is Using a Decades-Old Liberal Policy to Stall Green Energy Projects in Rural Areas
The “weirdos” shaping Trump’s second term: A liberal writer explains her journey through intellectual MAGAland
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
Exploring Young Women’s Leftward Expansion
U.S. Political Parties Historically Polarized Ideologically
Increase in Liberal Views Brings Ideological Parity on Social Issues
Conservative, liberal Midwest college students talk politics while practicing empathy
Republican legislatures look to put local issues in liberal areas under state control
The dictionary
progressive senses of liberal
No, we’re just adopting the definition the rest of the world has for it.
I’ll take NPR, ProPublica, Gallup, Vox, and the way people actually talk around me over online zealots in denial about shit printed right in front of them.
I think you haven’t been paying attention if you think those publications are using your definition.
You must have willful illiteracy or strong delusion: liberal is often written in opposition to the right or as synonymous with the left.
It’s pretty clear with Gallup. On leftward expansion of young women, they express the spectrum of political views from liberal to conservative & from left to right as synonymous. The plot of responses to
shows
which means
The other articles consistently agree with that language.
We can see it in common language: when the right gloats about owning the libs, they’re not talking about owning themselves. They’re saying “the libs” are not right, ie, left. American leftists refer to themselves that way, too.
You’re in serious denial to contradict plain observations smacking you over the head everyday. With that kind of invulnerability to information & inability to update beliefs according to evidence, you might as well be a religious fundamentalist: you think the same. Not a compliment. Work on yourself.