Political Memes

"The Economist was founded in 1843 by James Wilson, a British businessman who objected to heavy import duties on foreign corn. Mr Wilson and his friends in the Anti-Corn Law League were classical liberals in the tradition of Adam Smith and, later, the likes of John Stuart Mill and William Ewart Gladstone. This intellectual ancestry has guided the newspaper’s instincts ever since: it opposes all undue curtailment of an individual’s economic or personal freedom.

That's not very left according to my center.

They’re fairly socially liberal and keep a decent objective reach, but they’re also unapologetically capitalistic.

Which personally I think is fine.

Slightly left on social issues but generally right on financial issues and it is mainly a final based newspaper. Through an emeicsn lens, it might all appear more left than the reality due to the Overton window shift.

What's nice is they do look at social programs on a cost benefit basis. So, where something helps people and saves money, it can help to remove any opposition ideologically.