The fact that "neoliberalism" is considered left should seriously concern anyone who has opened a history book.
The problem is with the word liberalism in US. For Europeans: Liberalism == right wing...
I guess it has taken a more cultural sense in US, where US liberalism is more about morals than economics (drugs, sex, gender, immigration...) and became a synonym for progressive, as opposed to conservatism and its pseudo religious aspects.
Neo-liberalism clearly has a negative connotation in Europe, at least politically, it is synonym of ultra capitalism.
Unmooring politics from the economic concerns of the voter (or of the person who lives here if voting isn't a question) rarely bodes well for the long-term health of the state.
There are exceptions of course—North Korea, perhaps?