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As a Transfem, it's because conservatives suck (granted I despise all forms of liberalism).
Also why the hell is liberalism considered "left-wing" its center right at most.
The people who process these data have limited vocabulary or need to speak to those who do.
Political education in the US and many of the countries that hold these polls is awful. I'd trust a middle-schooler from Cuba, Vietnam, or China more than an ivy-league-educated polysci graduate when it comes to political awareness.
Did you just say conservatism is a form of liberalism?
In the United States the Republicans follow a form of Liberalism, Libertarians a form of Classical Liberalism, and Democrats a form a Neoliberalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal
Liberalism supports capitalism, nothing about it is left wing. Hell even Social Liberalism isn't left wing.
It sounds like you're thinking of Libertarianism which is a subset of liberalism, but they are distinct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
"private property"
Yeah, not left wing.
One thing not left wing and it's all right wing? Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Liberalism supports capitalism and private property, thats not left wing. Leftism isnt "when government does stuff", its worker owned economies and true progress (no unions dont count as a worker owned economy). There are centrist ideologies which aren't strictly speaking left or right like Social Democracy and Georgism but Liberalism isn't in that category.
Liberals are by any definition of the word right-wing, since liberals believe in capitalism and the liberal democracies of the world are maintaining ruthless imperialism.