Political parties with misleading names

[Antonio the Sixth]

As much as I like him, Bernie calling himself a socialist kinda counts here.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh wow, that's what Fianna Fail means? "Soldiers of Destiny"... rofl. De Valera was quite the megalomaniac!

Anyway, someone's gotta mention the Macedonian parties.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah isn't PP (Spain) sometimes translated as the "Popular Party"? That's gotta be kinda ironic atm.

"Popular" and "People's" are the same word in Latin languages. The main right-wing party in France also used to be called the Union for a Popular Movement. And let's not forget about the various Popular Fronts that have existed at some point or another in France, Spain and Italy. Or the Populares in the late Roman Republic.

[Antonio the Sixth]

And lets not forget the Social Democratic Party in the UK Despite the name it was actually a bunch of centrist labour voters splitting off.

That's exactly how we'd define social democracy though- in "Welfare Capitalist" terms rather than "Gradual Socialist" terms

"Welfare Capitalism" can take three forms, Social Democracy being only one of them. In addition, the boundary between keeping capitalism with some added welfare mechanisms and gradually introducing elements of socialism is not as clear-cut as it's made out to be.