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There is one difference in that "social democracy"
is more clearly defined, European doctrine and practices are both original;
while "liberal democracy" is quite vague. What adds to the dellima is
that "liberalism" in the US in particular is often tagged with
"socialism," even though historically liberalism in the US emerged as
a form of defense or what Marx would have called "bourgeois
socialism"--socialist concessions designed to protect capitalism, a
strategy invented by Bismarck, who was neither a socialist nor a liberal.
Social democrats are inspired by social justice and equity. But they are also democrats, so they rely on the voters to determine those goals. The vogue assumption is that most voters are rational and rationality in the associated sense is that they know how to vote in self-interest. Since more people are poor, working-class, or working middle-class, theoretically, if these people unite to vote in common self-interest, wealth should wind up distributed, in the form of taxes and government benefits, to the majority of the population.