Neither left nor right just straight

I strongly discredit the very term "left-liberal". 
Not solely because of ideological difference in terms of the antithesis of left & right dichotomy or binary being presented all the time everywhere, but my point of dissent lies in word liberal. They are no liberal, in fact, they are very conservative beyond their own perceptions of wisdom. 
Liberals espoused a wide array of views, they are close to the left when they talk about the annihilation of heredity privileges, the divine right of kingship, but eventually, they are essentially right and generally support the free market, free trade, limited government, capitalism and internationalism.
They are reformist while advocating individual rights, secularism, racial and gender equalities. 

If we go with John Locke, one of my favourite philosopher, who is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct tradition, based on the social contract theory, arguing that each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property and governments must not violate these rights against a certain set of individual liberties the citizens surrendered. 
What we notice that most of the modern democracies are already adhering to almost all the above things in their constitutional arrangements. 
What has left for so-called left-liberals is actually a venomous soup of arrogance of their own self appraised wisdom and frustration of disregard in the modern world.

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