why shouldn't I be a leftist?

[HumanHive]

You shouldn't be an "ist" at all. No policy or ideology is universally applicable or the final solution for all time, and you shouldn't seek to "export the revolution" for the sake of some global utopia. Utopia is impossible, and goes against both the finite nature of the universe and human nature, which is intended to be always in conflict with itself for the purpose of individual and collective advancement. Person A builds something, person B tries to tear it down or think up a method to do so. Castles, nations, companies, ideologies. All are going to be eaten away at by the dissatisfied and oppertunistic. It's a "working as intended" part of humanity, and doesn't need fixing.

If you wish to improve a given aspect of human life, that's fine. But remember policies should fit circumstances, and when they don't work there's always a good reason why. And likewise a good reason why current policies were put in place. Fuedalism, for example, was the best system a post-Roman world could manage and was quite stable. If you were to go back in time and try to install democratic government, it'd utterly fail. Democracy, capitalism, and socialism were seen as "more advanced" systems by Marx, but his error was and still is that there is no "more evolved" in evolution. Everything is as circumstances permit. There is no "next stage of progress", only "next set of circumstances to adapt to". And this is what most "ists" never figure out.

 

[Terrorist]

Here’s another one for you guys: Why shouldn’t I be a fascist?

Limited government and democracy were maybe decent ideas in theory, but they created a power vacuum that our enemies used to throttle us. We shouldn’t tie our own hands while getting throttled, in my opinion. Power must be met with greater power.

When the west rejected tradition for liberty, it started dying soon after. Coincidence?

 

[MrJokerRager]

Why did leftists abandon gun rights for appeasing the neoliberals and old hippy cat ladies. The immigrants and the soymen came way later.

Also they keep using phrases like rightoids, chuds and I guess the hatred is mutual between leftists and rightist.

 

[Flea Man Marbles]

For the same reason you shouldn't be right wing, centrist, or any other ideology - it's an inaccurate, limiting label. Subscribing to any political philosophy is adhering to guidelines that someone else has defined. And in today's clown world people hide behind labels; I've seen supposed 'right wing' people do supposedly leftist things, and vice versa. There's plenty other ways to see the world and the left/right dichotomy doesn't encompass even .01% of all the possibilities.
Humans are inherently drawn to labels and icons but that's the lazy way of thinking. Do the hard thing, fire up some neurons, and come up with your own conclusions and ideals about what's going on in the world and what you'd like to do about it. The label is just an unnecessary barrier between free thought and action.
Plus people get so damn pissed when they can't fit you into a neat little box.

 

[FunPosting101]

In the USA, the only electable left-wing party wants to put mentally ill men wearing dresses into your kids classroom, the left that was for labor unions, workers rights, more affordable health care, environmental protections, etc, is either dead, or dying.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Your average left-wing "worker's party" is fucking dead and buried, because most left-wing parties realized they could flood their countries with immigrants with high birth rates, and then pander to the immigrants and give them free shit for much easier votes. So voting for one is frankly quite stupid, unless you yourself are an immigrant.