If you are Left-Wing, please explain why

Not equal distribution of workload then? Funny that.....

They'll tell you its not overly left-wing, but TSR is the only place I have ever seen people declare that a person on benefits has the right to create a family funded by the taxpayer.

Partly because the US government is under the strong sway of giant corporate lobbying, including oil corps. There's also a long-term strategic aim of ensuring some degree of control/influence over countries which have significant oil reserves. Why do you think the American call for democracy and freedom never applies to Saudi Arabia? Don't be so fracking naive.

It's almost as if the oil companies had an oil exec in the white house............

Yeah, this has got to be the biggest non sequitur I've ever seen. Can you actually provide some sort of explanation as to how SureStart supposedly caused the financial crisis?

caused by a Labour Government who decided they would spend money on the Credit card on things like SureStart

Er... we're a social species.

The problem here is that you're approaching the issue of societal arrangements as they stand normatively and plenty of us on the left don't see capitalism normatively.

I appreciate that you aren't even likely to look up the word 'normatively' let alone make an attempt to understand the context in which it's being applied here, but it might just otherwise enlighten you as to why leftists take up positions which are no-doubt currently so perplexing to you.

I've only been on TSR for a number of weeks, however, I have noticed that the majority of users are left wing voters. I am not. I would like to know the main reasons why someone who would identify themselves as left wing, or a labour voter, are inclined to be that way and believe in those ideas.


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So are Lions..... they live in packs. The weak are still weeded out.

So are Lions..... they live in packs. The weak are still weeded out.

Should people on benefits be allowed to create families paid for by the taxpayer- yes or no?...

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And it's not even as if much digging is needed to find these connections, they are right there staring us in the face, from the Whitehouse.

When moving into a new pride, male lions kill and eat the offspring fathered by previous males in the pack, provided they are young enough to kill without serious risk of injury. Your lesson for today? Every species, including every social species, have their own unique behavioural patterns the result of which is that comparisons for sociological or political ends are meaningless. Our evolution as a social species, however, has been one in which we've spent 99% of our existence living as mutually supportive hunter-gatherer communities.

Wouldn't that be survival of the weakest? Not very productive for the human race?

The "state" doesn't exist. You mean its the job of taxpayers to ensure their citizens have a good quality of life- even those who don't want to work?

1) Norway, Netherlands and Sweden are not the most developed.
2) Norway and Australia have raw materials, big-time
3) Germany has a weak currency, great for exports and has the tripartite education system (the thing Labour got rid of in this country..... a right-wing idea)

You meant to say:

There's a reason why North Korea has the world's weakest economy and why USSR and China changed to right-wing policies?

Socialism contradicts how life works. Life is about survival of the fittest and socialism keeps the weak around.

Define social equality?

The global financial crisis was caused by left-wing policies in the US forcing banks to lend to poor people, hence subprime mortgages

The UK financial crisis was caused by a Labour Government who decided they would spend money on the Credit card on things like SureStart- teaching teenage mothers (who they induced through the benefits system) how to look after their babies. Giving them a free flat and £20k a year wasn't enough for the mothers, they needed the parental advice too.......

What has Cameron done to be a toff?

The problem with Labour supporters (and please read this) is that 90% of them aren't supporters of Labour. They are anti-Conservative supporters. I'll say this again, the majority of Labour voters do not support the Labour party- they are simply against the Conservatives.

Says a lot about a party when even their own voters don't actually support them.....

The earth has finite resources- yes? So what happens when we have over-population due to propping up the weak?

Because leftists are idealists, naive and do not understand life IS about survival of the fittest. You think when oil runs out (and assuming we don't have a substitute) oil will be shared out evenly? Please tell me, do you?