| US has a bit weird definition of conservative (similar to the term liberal), European definition of conservative is not always pro free market nor always pro free trade. simplified European definitions on space travel: socialist: all government run ("planned economy") social liberal/social democrat: political co-operations (unions) partly funded by government, private corporations funded by government and government corporations, all government regulated ("corporativism") liberal: privately funded, government regulated ("free market") neoliberal: privately funded, privately regulated ("capitalism") liberatarian: what have space done to us? conservative: national effort to travel to space ("corporativism") US term of conservative is a mix of liberal/neoliberal economics with conservative traditions. Breitbart/Bannon conservatism is more like European conservatism on economics. |