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"Liberals"?
These people
Liberals aren’t leftists.
Edit: to clarify, this is from the Wikipedia entry on left-wing politics:
So some classify liberals as center-left, but center leftists aren’t a thing, and calling them just leftists would be inaccurate.
Your citation says social democracy is a leftist ideology, that encompasses a significant number of American liberals no? I don't really think anyone would say Bernie is right-leaning, for example?
My source says it’s a center-left ideology. I would identify Bernie as center-left, based on that. But calling him a leftist would be inaccurate (unless we also call him a centrist). We could call him a center-leftist, but that feels clunky to me.
Liberals calling criticism on right wing policies "leftie infighting".
The poster is presumably "far left" - some flavor of socialist, communist, anarchist.
They use the term "liberal" in the classical sense which would include (US centric) Democrats and the so called "moderate" Republicans. Whereas in mainstream discourse "liberal" has come to mean "left" but really that's only left as far as is common in the anglosphere which isn't very far at all.
You have to remember that America's political spectrum is skewed heavily to the right.
'Liberals' only appear left-wing because your centre ground is much further to the right than many other developed countries.
In other countries 'Liberals' occupy the centre ground, with the left and right wings on either side.
There are no sides. Only working class and oligarchs.
This meme is from a left-wing perspective, from which "liberals" are centre-right.