Not unique to the US but left and right is relative to the polity being discussed. And in South African politics the brand of liberalism the DA follows is slightly right of centre. Mostly because some its consituent parties used to be consertive and and very right wing. The DA is a composite party that has ended up with right leaning tendencies.
Imagine a country with 2 major parties, a communist party and a liberal party. They can’t both be left wing so the liberal party would end up on the right.
In most of the non-US world, the liberal party is close to the political center. Some - like the Norwegian or AUS Liberal parties - are center-right while others - like the UK’s LibDem and the Liberal party of Canada are center-left.
“Left” to us non-USians is social democrats and socialists, and the social democrats are regarded as only a little left of center.
Idaho, one of those mooching red colored welfare states that receives more federal funding than it supplies through income taxes now wants to be spared from cuts coming to SNAP or Medicaid. Nearly 40% of their state budget is federal money. Looks like the leopards could be feasting on a lot of faces.
Absolutely! And while they are at it, build a long runway for that bribe/Qatar jet tRUMP is snagging for his very own and have that be the only place it is allowed to land or take off from. That should reduce its appeal quite a bit.
I can think of several things, but then I have a vivid imagination. For example, a very specific and localized meteor strike would both improve the nation and be a boon to science.
The full name of the Likud - Israel’s ruling right-wing party - is “Likud - the National Liberal Party”. That’s because it was formed in 1973 as an alliance of a bunch of smaller parties, led by the right-wing Herut (Independence) and the centrist Liberal Party.
A tempting idea, especially if it includes a Polish Corridor along I-90. I don’t go to Montana — which is pretty red, but not nearly as whackadoodle crimson as Idaho-ho-ho — as much as I used to, but it would be nice to be able to get there without detouring through BC or OR.
(The exact location of Heinlein’s Coventry wasn’t specified, but I can imagine it being in southern Idaho.)
It looks like you spend the least amount of time in Idaho if you start from Newport and go through Sand Point. Less than an hour and a half. But, of course, you have to go through Pend Oreille county, briefly, which is about as Idaho as you can get without being in Idaho.
From wiki I see that there appear to be more center-right Liberal parties than center-left ones worldwide. There are a couple of Far-right or right wing Liberal parties. Lots of Liberal parties in the strict center. For some reason Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party didn’t make the list. The LDP formed during the 1950s as a merger of 2 conservative parties.
The Economist magazine, considered center-right by European standards, self-identifies as a liberal publication.
