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Liberalism = individual rights, small government/low regulation
The meme sucks because you can be liberal left or right
Isn't that libertarianism?
Liber(al), liber(tarian)
Comes from the French Laissez-faire which as a core belief was that landowners should be taxed not workers. Though literally means let (people) be
The opposite is authoritarian which is what OP thinks leftism is
That's not quite right: there's still big government and heavy regulation under liberalism, it's just focused on enclosing the Earth's Commons and enforcing a rigid system of private property. Liberals tend not realize this, in the same way a fish doesn't realize it's submerged in water.