To those who understand, most of us are classically liberal.
I recently told an old leftist whacko acquaintance with whom I hadn’t talked to in years that I am the most liberal person I know, and he said, “No you’re not,” and proceeded to list some of his more recent brainwashed bigoted activities. Fortunately, we were on the phone, or he might have been moved to violence by my barely controlled laughter.
The use of “liberal” as a synonym for “libertine” and hence a godless left-winger goes back over a century.