steven0461 comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: steven0461 05 December 2011 09:07:37PM *  2 points [-]

Where I come from, liberals are mostly right-wing too, but it's hard to disentangle whether that's because the whole spectrum is to the left or whether the definitions are just different. The survey did explain that "liberal" meant US liberal. (ETA: as per the sibling comment, it's a little more complicated than that)

Comment author: dbaupp 06 December 2011 01:07:27AM 0 points [-]

This is the case in Australia too. The "Liberal" party is the major right-wing political party (and thus are more similar to the Republicans than the Democrats (in the US)), so there is a distinction between "big-L" and "little-L" liberals.