How many leftists does it take to solve a problem?

@BlueMetalChick So you think rightists can't get along with each other? You must be a leftist. Too Funny!!!!!

@hippyjoe1955 What part of comment said anything about rightists getting along with each other? What in the hell are you talking about?

@BlueMetalChick You seem to think that all of those things you listed are the domain of leftists. I know that is simply not true.

@hippyjoe1955 Well, every single one of them was made possible by leftism. And right wingers are trying to dismantle every single one. So...yeah, I'm right.

@hippyjoe1955 I didn't see anything in @BlueMetalChick's brilliant answer about people not getting along. She gave a bunch of examples of government services. In general, the right side of the political spectrum these days mistrusts government; the left side is all about government services. Also, many of her examples, like social security or subsidized medicine, only exist because of leftists, historically.

@ServantOfTheGoddess You are absolutely correct. However, our friend here has a very bizarre and also very wrong idea of what left/right means on a political spectrum. For example, he thinks that the Third Reich was leftist. He also thinks that communists and Muslims have teamed up with LGBT people. Even though all three of those groups have hated each other for as long as they've existed, respectively.

@ServantOfTheGoddess If you think that is brilliant you must be a leftist and therefor part of the problem since you have no solution. Too Funny!!!!

@hippyjoe1955 I'll give you five bucks if you can define "leftism" or "rightism". Just gimme a few of the broadest strokes. I don't need anything specific, unless you want to.

No, really, go ahead. I'll wait.

@hippyjoe1955 Regardless of my own politics, @BlueMetalChick's answer is well written and to the point.

I did appreciate your original post as a joke, by the way!

@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.