I notice a lot of talk here on the “left”, but can anyone point me to a political party on the left in a major industrialized nation that actually cares about the working people? Certainly not the United States’ Democrat party.

If a so-called left party cared about working people, they’d make sure that there were jobs available to them, by not imposing ridiculous rules on Farmers, Foresters and Fishermen and how they can go about their business, not to mention manufacturers. They’d make sure that working-class neighborhoods were safe, even if that meant being politically-incorrect and locking up criminals regardless of their “cultural background”, along with kicking out of a country those people who illegally entered it (by the way, this would also help workers by raising the wages in the areas that those illegally-employed people once worked). Public schools would be held to a high standard, so that a worker wouldn’t have to worry about his children getting the education they need- because he’d know they were. There’d be no talk of “state run daycare”, because all that does is ensure a few thousand of the privileged get daycare spots, and all the lower class workers pay for it in tax dollars. A party who cared about workers would make sure that there’d be enough bread on one salary to allow for alternate care arrangements like one parent staying at home.

There’d be a lot less talk about governmental healthcare spending on things like needle exchanges, “safe injection sites”, taxpayer expensed gender-change operations, and more on the basic care that a worker would need after years of hard labour.

A party dedicated to the workers would make sure they didn’t pay too much in taxes, so that they could get going in their lives. It’d make sure that no corporation got too heavily taxed, either, lest the jobs vanish entirely. It wouldn’t go around spending too much on a handful of government jobs for special interests and grinding down everyone else.

I don’t see any true parties of the left around here- I see a bunch of overgrown college kids busy trying to both run everything and look after their friends at the same time. I see lots of upper-class snobbery and upper-class holier-than-thou acts (oh heavens! Will no one think of the yellow crested snail eating worm darter! Oh my! That poor man is being put in jail for stealing all those little people’s cars! What horror- their insurance should surely cover it, and he shouldn’t be imprisoned for such a petty thing as property theft!), but very little attention to the real concerns of the average worker.

But on reflection, I do see several political positions that do a much better job of looking after the concerns of the average citizen who makes the things that make a nation run- just not on the “left”.