You have an american media understanding of what left and right are.

The rest of the world, and everyone who reads books, know that right and left as political terms originated in the period of the French Revolution, in which the forces who wanted to retain the absolute rule of kings sat on the right of the aisle in parliament, and those who wanted rights and rule of law were on the left. They quickly became generalized, with right then meaning the tendency to concentrate power in the incumbent oligarchic class, and left becoming synonymous with the tendency toward democratization. This is how scholarly people the world over use the terms to this day.

You have adopted the corporate media’s usage, wherein right and left become team-sports markers with no permanent grounding in policy. It is a disempowering understanding of the world, which is why billionaires invest so much money in promoting it to the masses. It is one of the forms of guillotine insurance.

If liberals aren’t on the left, where are they?

Conservatives and liberals are both guardians of capitalist power - they are both firmly on the right. They are each funded by an almost identical collection of billionaire and corporate donors. Conservatives are mostly direct and overt about it. Liberals are more sly - their function is absorb and dissipate leftist pressure so that it cannot consolidate into a coherent, independent force. Wearing the skins of the social movements they strangle, the liberals then pin their own crimes on “socialism”, to braying conservative applause. If that’s the spectacle you want to stay lost in, suit yourself. But in that case, I think you’d feel more at home on Reddit.