Eugine_Nier comments on The Illusion of Sameness - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Elizabeth 22 January 2011 06:41AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 January 2011 08:15:47PM *  5 points [-]

First of all, which country are you from? The word 'liberal' means very different things in the political discourse of America and Europe.

Comment author: Aharon 26 January 2011 10:42:30AM 0 points [-]

I'm from Germany. I got the impression that liberal is used as synonymous with "Democrat" in the american political discourse, and that the Democrats would be roughly center-right in german political terms.