How many leftists does it take to solve a problem?

@ServantOfTheGoddess She implies that highways are a leftist idea. The interstate system in the US was built by Eisenhower. Where I live the highways were built by a very conservative government as well. Hmmm As for the rest of the nonsense it remains nonsense. When there is a need for group action both left and right get together and do it. Often at the insistence of the right. I used to live in an area of minimal government. It was a small population in a very large area. The police as run by the government were 60 miles away but that was OK we the people looked after each other. Any infractions of the law were dealt with by the locals. The people, most all were very conservative, funded their own volunteer fire brigade. The neighbors watched out for each other. Should someone fall on hard times the people would help out as best they could. There was no welfare or medicare or the like. The town ran its own water treatment plant, school and library. We didn't demand government funding we did it on our own. Each of us took it upon ourselves to buy a book or a dozen when we had opportunity to donate to the library. We started our own museum and some of our students went on to win Nobel Peace Prizes as well as doctors, veterinarians, lawyers, professors, theologians etc. In the mean time look at the 'public' schools in the democrat cities in the US. If the student doesn't get shot or killed by drugs he will likely come out of grade 12 illiterate and innumerate and completely incapable of doing work or raising a family and undoubtedly a useless leftist who thinks leftism is the cause of what the rightists have been doing all along.

@hippyjoe1955 [quote]She implies that highways are a leftist idea.[/quote]
Not quite. I'm implying that publicly owned and maintained highways are a leftist idea. Because they are. The rightist counterpart is privately owned and privately maintained highways. Why do you think right wing idols like Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck have been arguing for private ownership or highways for longer than I've been alive?

[quote] The interstate system in the US was built by Eisenhower.[/quote]
And? Eisenhower was a member of the Republican Party but his politics were way further left than the GOP has been for decades.

[quote]Where I live the highways were built by a very conservative government as well.[/quote]
Couldn't have been very conservative if they didn't try to privatize the highways.

[quote]When there is a need for group action both left and right get together and do it.[/quote]
You're thinking of parties, not left/right. Your first mistake is assuming that republican = right and democratic = left. The two parties work together, usually on things that are bad, like revoking people's health insurance, bombing foreign nations, or cutting taxes for rich people. Y'know, all that stuff you support.

[quote] The police as run by the government were 60 miles away but that was OK we the people looked after each other. Any infractions of the law were dealt with by the locals.[/quote]
Gee, this sounds a lot like "defund the police." You couldn't be supporting that though, now could you?

[quote] The people, most all were very conservative, funded their own volunteer fire brigade.[/quote]
Perhaps, in the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhereville in British Colombia where you live, something like that is necessary because you have no other option, but you do realize this doesn't work in the majority of the civilized world, right? You think a group of random untrained volunteer firefighters are going to be able to do anything in even a small city? With no fire engines, keys to hydrants, hooks, ladders, or communication equipment to coordinate their efforts, they might as well just give up and go home.

[quote]Should someone fall on hard times the people would help out as best they could. There was no welfare or medicare or the like.[/quote]
Once again, this might work in a community of like one thousand people, but most of the world isn't like that. You're also forgetting that this pinko dream world you're describing doesn't suffer from the problem of enforced poverty through corporatism.

@hippyjoe1955 I wanna put this in a separate comment because it's something I want to emphasize, and I know you never read the entirety of long comments. What you just described, a small community with volunteer firefighters and people looking out for each other to prevent crime and hardship. You know what that sounds a whole lot like? Communism.

Congratulations my friend, you just accidentally advocated for communism.

@hippyjoe1955 Well, no, the big bank failures didn't begin when leftists were in power. You made that part up.

Remember, you supported the repeal of Glass-Stegal, which gave banks the power to do whatever they want with your money. Why do you trust banks so much?

Also, that was the brainchild of Hillary Clinton. Are you suddenly a neoliberal? A few minutes ago you openly supported communist utopia to me. You can't be a communist and a neolib at the same time. You gotta pick one, space muffin.

@BlueMetalChick You think the failures just happened over night? They were years in the making and the beginning of the folly always began under the leftists. You are historically ignorant aren't you. Remember the housing bubble? It began under Clinton. The collapse happened under Bush.

@hippyjoe1955 And who are these leftists? Can you name one?

Yes, I know it began under Clinton. I just said that. Did you read my last comment? I said "Also, that was the brainchild of Hillary Clinton." Are you senile?

That's my point. Clinton was a corporatist piece of shit. Why do you think every leftist in America despises both the Clintons?

@Virgo79 They do suffer from group think a lot. One of them gets an idea no matter how ridiculous and the rest take as gospel truth.