Is this a leftie board?

[life on mars]

Yeah I think I understand what socialism is and its 100% record of increasing rather than decreasing people's wealth health and Liberty.
It's all very well quoting theorists about something which hasn't been tried yet, but socialism has been tried in various places for well over a century, and it's left millions dead in its wake without improving anything.

I don't think it matters all that much at the point because it's now been pretty much universally rejected and there's no danger of another labour government for as long into the future as we can imagine.

I don't want to start up the whole anti semitism thing here again, but my experience is that leftist posters are the ones who've defended or condoned it.

You can only judge and what and who you know , I find very committed socialist are glass half full folk ,mainly middle aged older men , and my God they do moan .

[RonnieBird]

You can only judge and what and who you know , I find very committed socialist are glass half full folk ,mainly middle aged older men , and my God they do moan .

Well of course that's the nature of socialism. People who've been unable or just unwilling to make the effort to have influence sit round complaining about the unalterable fact that the world's not perfect, and imagining how much better it'd be if they were in charge.

Since they'll never be in charge of anything they can make extravagant claims about how great they'd make it. They're never going to actually get the chance to do any of it and so they'll never be expected to make good on the claims.

It's like the Welsh Nationalists of the Green Party having policies about nuclear weapons etc. They can say what they like because they know they'll never be in any position to enact the policies