No. Leftist means anti-capitalist.

No liberals are not leftist.

Look up indigenous socialism. Those tend to work. They tend to get crushed by larger powers but they work internally. Unless of course you mean by work you mean be the mightiest. Yeah no.

There’s also things like the Paris commune.

Right, and who do you think gave you the 8-hour work week? Yep leftists.

USA, AZ.

If I may ask, why did you flee?

Yes, because the ultimately didn’t get rid of the root of the problem and so they go back to their ways. Very similar to how a person who doesn’t do rehab correctly or had a bad experience with it will go back to using drugs when things get hard because that’s their coping mechanism.

They need to have better coping mechanisms.

The exit program in Germany for example has a 3% recidivism rate. Not too bad.