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They’re not, this is the traditional polling version of liberal vs. conservative — the one that everyone who is not terminally online uses and can understand as it has been around for over a century.
How do you describe the right wing ideology of liberalism in a not confusing way without rejecting liberalism=left as a definition?
WTF do you think "liberalism" means? It's the opposite of authoritarianism, it's not really left or right.
Liberalism is individualist above all in my mind. What advances your personal freedom is the best thing for everyone. Neoliberalism is a post-Keynesian consensus that believes this is most achievable through equal opportunity in the free market.
I also like Phil Ochs definition of liberal from the 60s, "ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center when it affects them personally.