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• but no small amount of Australian Liberals; which is their conservative party (…I know I know…It makes no sense but best not to bring it up with them)

  I think the explanation there is that is “liberal” in most of the rest of the world means something more like what the term classical liberal does in the United States…in other words pro individual freedom and small markets. It still seems to me that the right wing groups in other countries (in Europe I should say) still fall to the left of the US Republican Party on many issues.

  Just another reminder that labels aren’t always so helpful…

• Make that *free* markets not small.

• Thanks Logan. You are most correct and I would have explained more but that would have distracted from my whimsical narrative :)I am aquainted with the classical reference to liberal sometimes refering to myself as a “Jeffersonian Liberal”

  But as most people aren’t familiar with the history I wanted to clarify for the audience that we our little souiere hadn’t been invaded by the left wing 🙂

• I think you were right the average person wouldn’t have picked up on the distinction. It does always amuse me how many people don’t seem to realize that the radical Left has never infiltrated American politics the way it has elsewhere…that type of leftist thinking in this country is found in academia, not so much in the Democratic Party on the ground. Then again, though, in many ways the United States is an outlier among Western nations when it comes to government and politics…

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