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Majority in new poll says they would not vote for socialist: Gallup
The Hill ^ | February 11, 2020 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 02/11/2020 5:12:28 AM PST by karpov

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To: griswold3
"Mayor Pete"

Listen, when someone surreptitiously interviews the First Queen Chasten again and get his stereotypical flaming behaviour into a viral video, Pete will be lucky to be let back into South Bendover...

21 posted on 02/11/2020 8:10:27 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: karpov

As another FReeper Posted, a Socialist is just a Communist who hasn’t murdered anyone “yet”.


22 posted on 02/11/2020 8:12:08 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
It’s really down to Bernie and Bloomberg, and everybody is trying to make sure it’s not Bernie.

Except for the Bernie Bots, who will react rather negatively to their candidate being screwed over yet again on what will be his last go-round.

23 posted on 02/11/2020 8:13:44 AM PST by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: karpov

“Majority in new poll says they would not vote for socialist: Gallup”

Voting is racist: Democrats


24 posted on 02/11/2020 8:58:02 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: karpov

Wish the Media wasn’t so manipulative. This is pure anti Bernie timing.


25 posted on 02/11/2020 8:58:16 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s ironic.
A party that claims the rich are the problem is going to nominate a billionaire and push out the socialist.


26 posted on 02/11/2020 8:58:58 AM PST by david1292
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To: david1292

It’s much easier to sneak socialism past people if the guy leading the effort is a billionaire.

If you actually have a Socialist pushing socialism, some people will sit up and notice.


27 posted on 02/11/2020 9:06:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: StAnDeliver

Sorry. Maybe in times passed but now any ‘edgy’ behavior is a Badge of Honor in the Democrat Party.

If I could have one question asked of Mayo Pete from Wall Street, it is, ‘Are you a Sinner?’


28 posted on 02/11/2020 9:44:10 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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45% would???


29 posted on 02/11/2020 9:45:53 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: karpov

For likely voters this poll question is really would you vote for Trump or a generic Democrat.


30 posted on 02/11/2020 9:51:21 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: karpov
Asked whether they would vote for their party nominee who was a “generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be socialist,” . . .

That's like asking a woman if she would date a generally well-qualified man who happened to model his life after the character Hannibal Lecter. There is nothing that can balance the flaws in a man who has you over for dinner "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" or a candidate who is socialist. Judging by history, the socialist is by far the worst of the two. How many did soviet socialist Stalin murder? How many did national socialist Hitler murder? How many did socialists Mao, Pol Pot, and those in Vietnam, North Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the rest murder? No, thank you. I'd rather "rub the lotion on my skin", Buffalo Bill style, than expose my children and future generations to a life under socialism.

31 posted on 02/11/2020 9:51:42 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: karpov

Problem is, young people are not taught the horrors of Socialism, Communism anymore.

They think it is very cool and their teachers embrace it. They are not shown the horrors of once rich countries, now Socialist, like Venezuela on the news or any media.

Boomers know because we saw the reality of it every night on the news. Communists were our enemy. It was a dirty word.


32 posted on 02/11/2020 9:55:43 AM PST by katnip
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To: karpov

“Being a socialist (actually a communist) is not some chance event that happened to Sanders. He has been striving for it his whole life.”


My grandfather got out of the USSR right at the beginning, in 1923, and pretty much by the skin of his teeth. One of his brothers was already here; the rest of the family was trapped there (with one exception) until the USSR (thankfully) collapsed. To say the least, Communism was not good for my family, in any way.

When I met one of my father’s cousins (then about 50), I asked him what it was like after so long to be free of the Communist government. His reply was, “Same wall, different wallpaper.”

I apply that to all of the various stripes of Socialism. They can call themselves whatever the F they want to, but they ALL have a basis in lies, in the coercive seizure of the work product of others, and (ultimately, when all of that fails) in murder. They violate 3 of the 10 Commandments from the very start (and add to that with their assault on religion, because their just cannot be anything or anyone greater than the Party).

Oh, BTW, if any of these numbnuts useLESS idiots voting for Sanders or similar Communists start spouting off about “democratic socialism” in the Nordic countries, or elsewhere in Europe, put them in their place by saying that these countries are NOT socialist in any meaningful way; they are, instead, merely welfare states. Oh, some of the parties (in or out of power) may have the word “socialist” or the word “democratic” (or both) in their name, but that is just plain advertising. It is NOT reflective of the reality.

What is shocking, almost beyond belief, is that ONLY 53% of people wouldn’t vote for a Socialist, and that 45% *would*. While I definitely think that Trump will wipe the floor (A.K.A. “schlong”) anyone that the Dems nominate (and Bernie more than anyone else), I fear for our future. The younger elements of our society did not grow up during the Cold War, and they have (as a group) very little if any knowledge of what Communism and its deceptive sibling Socialism really are. We may find out before long that you can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.


33 posted on 02/11/2020 10:12:06 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: AndyJackson

“Uh, shows how utterly corrupt these polls are. No genuine non-RINO non-globalist non-crony capitalist Republican would ever vote for a socialist. Ever”


I agree.

Most thinking Republicans would be far more likely to shoot at a Socialist (i.e. a Communist in sheep’s clothing that hasn’t yet developed the guts to start shooting people in the back of the head), than to vote for one. Given my family history (they stole all of my great grandfather’s property that he had worked for a lifetime to accumulate, then literally beat him to death a few years late when he was suffering from cancer, then imprisoned most of my grandfather’s family in a giant open-air prison for 75 years)...well, let’s just say that I won’t be voting for one - not even if Hell freezes over, unicorns regularly fly over me and shit out free Skittles, and flocks of flying pigs blot out the noonday Sun.


34 posted on 02/11/2020 10:18:34 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SeekAndFind

“If so, this does not augur well for our country’s future.”


No, it doesn’t.

But, oh, to be an gun and/or ammo manufacturer....


35 posted on 02/11/2020 10:19:43 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: katnip

Bingo, Katnip you have THE ANSWER...My eldest grand-daughter, 17 yo, just graduated high school and has been accepted in college, when asked about this subject, that she has never had any teaching in the horrors of the differences between communism/socialism and Democracy. It explains a lot!!!


36 posted on 02/11/2020 10:23:22 AM PST by ThomasPaine2000 (Peace without freedom is tyranny.)
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To: katnip

“They are not shown the horrors of once rich countries, now Socialist, like Venezuela on the news or any media.”


If I was teaching either Political Science or Economics on the college level, I’d start my lecture on the differences between Capitalism and Communism by saying, “So, you want socialism, A.K.A. Communism, rather than a Capitalistic system? OK, fine, that’s your choice, but get used to these for breakfast, lunch and dinner - if you’re lucky. Then I would toss a dead rat and a dead pigeon on the table in front of me.

Yeah, I know, I’d get fired about 3 minutes later. But at least I would have told the truth.

“Boomers know because we saw the reality of it every night on the news. Communists were our enemy. It was a dirty word.”


Yeah, but all of our knowledge and experience mean absolutely nothing and, in fact, they are a net drag on society because they can utter (or type) the derisive term, “Whatever, Boomer!” That suffices as an argument for many of them. As the saying goes, you can’t fix stupid (though you can numb it for a while with a 2 x 4). :>)


37 posted on 02/11/2020 10:29:44 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: karpov
It is very obvious the colleges have failed the students. All grand socialism and communism experiments have failed big time. And the end result is the most miserable experiences ever forced on citizens.

Another thing... once the revolution begins... the psychopaths gravitate up and take control because they are attracted to absolute power. The first to be killed are all the idealistic idiots who actually believed in the "pie in the sky" promises of socialism and/or communism.

As the saying goes... "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

38 posted on 02/11/2020 11:05:27 AM PST by John123 (It is Time for Debt Jubilee. Everything is Free)
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To: karpov

If Bernie gets the nomination all hell will break loose. The GOP has been, very shrewdly, holding its fire and letting the dims self immolate. But they have a very thick file on Bernie the Bolshevik and it will come out if/when he locks down the nomination. In a Sanders/Trump general election I predict Trump carrying somewhere around 40 states.


39 posted on 02/11/2020 11:33:57 AM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: karpov

lol

Yeah I HAPPEN to be white.

I HAPPEN to be an American citizen.

I never HAPPENED to be a socialist or have sex with another man or say I’m part American Indian.

Nor have I HAPPENED to grope a little girl.

Am I leaving any front runners out?


40 posted on 02/11/2020 11:52:34 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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