I doubt the meaning of the word was deliberately and/or consciously changed.
I blame the US two-party system for this, which has a timeline where
the two political parties did not just shift, but switched places.
The US democratic party has gone from being far-right,
to democratic socialist (left-wing), to center-right/right-wing and
currently going back to democratic socialist.
Liberals are not left and most US democrats are liberals and not even social liberals,
which is the centrist position within capitalist democracy.
They pervert the word.
I doubt the meaning of the word was deliberately and/or consciously changed.
I blame the US two-party system for this, which has a timeline where
the two political parties did not just shift, but switched places.
The US democratic party has gone from being far-right,
to democratic socialist (left-wing), to center-right/right-wing and
currently going back to democratic socialist.
It was deliberately perverted. The bourgeoisie own the government, the media, and the NGOs; and they know what they’re doing.