You're using "Democratic" and "liberal" as synonymous terms when they're not; one is an ideology and one is a party. Just because a Democrat does something doesn't make it liberal -- and in fact, they've been moving away from liberalism for quite some time.
It's funny how in continental Europe, if you tell people you're a liberal they'll think you're a free-market, small-government, pro-civil-liberties type. That's because our definitions in America have changed as the parties have changed. We've entangled ideology (liberalism) with a party (Democratic) to the point where people will call anti-liberal positions liberal simply because the Democratic Party has espoused it. The same is true of "conservatism" and "Republican" of course.
Let's see, who has been mixing up political positions and parties, shall we?
> I agree with the left on so many issues -- and have voted for them consistently for a few decades -- but I'm really disgusted at how they have become the party of censorship and limits on free speech. It's telling that they are now the party that is overly cozy with the largest, most-powerful companies on the planet.
See that? "the left" has "become the party" of things not actually evident. They are "the party" that is somehow cozy with Twitter, although again, I don't see how a Republican yelling at a company's CEO necessarily means the other party supports that company.
You're on a thread about a United States Senator, a Republican who is consistently measured as very far to the right in the US, and you keep bringing up things like "liberal" and "Democrats" and talking about Europe.
Your insistence on labeling behaviors using terms that don't apply in the context in which those behaviors are taking place seems unhelpful to me.
Again, this is about a Republican US Senator shouting at the CEO of Twitter, a US company. No Democrats were involved at all until you started talking about them.
It's funny how in continental Europe, if you tell people you're a liberal they'll think you're a free-market, small-government, pro-civil-liberties type. That's because our definitions in America have changed as the parties have changed. We've entangled ideology (liberalism) with a party (Democratic) to the point where people will call anti-liberal positions liberal simply because the Democratic Party has espoused it. The same is true of "conservatism" and "Republican" of course.