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Shocking Poll on Socialism in America
Fox Nation ^ | 29 Dec 2011 | Bernie Becker,

Posted on 12/29/2011 3:53:07 PM PST by mandaladon

While capitalism received a largely favorable response, Pew also found that at least 25 percent of respondents across all age groups, races, income levels and ideologies were dismissive of capitalism.

Tea Party sympathizers, conservative Republicans and those making more than $75,000 a year were the most likely to respond positively, while slightly more than half of blacks and Hispanics took the opposite view.

Almost 50 percent of those aged 18 to 29, those making less than $30,000 a year and Occupy Wall Street backers also had an unfavorable reaction to capitalism.

A majority of blacks and liberal Democrats, meanwhile, reacted positively to socialism. But while reactions to capitalism were fairly consistent across all age groups, 18-to-29-year-olds were more than three times more likely (49 percent to 13 percent) to endorse socialism than those older than 65.

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A majority of blacks and liberal Democrats, meanwhile, reacted positively to socialism...............Obama's followers
1 posted on 12/29/2011 3:53:13 PM PST by mandaladon
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18-to-29-year-olds were more than three times more likely (49 percent to 13 percent) to endorse socialism than those older than 65.

Proving what Winston Churchill said, "Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head."

2 posted on 12/29/2011 3:56:44 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

I guess I was heartless then...


3 posted on 12/29/2011 3:59:09 PM PST by DB
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To: mandaladon

Socialism works great until you run out of Chinese money.


4 posted on 12/29/2011 3:59:47 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DB

If you support socialism in America, you stop being an American.


5 posted on 12/29/2011 4:00:36 PM PST by bigdirty
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To: mandaladon

I’ve spoken to many people who do not understand the vast differences between the types of policies. Definitions escape them. They do not understand that government getting into bed with banks and big business is a form or fascism - not capitalism. Ignorance abounds. It’s why I hate the term Crony Capitalism. It’s confusing to more people than you can imagine.


6 posted on 12/29/2011 4:01:33 PM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

I’ve met lots of them. Supposedly well-educated college graduates who praise the European model. When you press them, they just say the government “should” pay for my health care, “should” pay for my college, and so forth. Ask them where the government will get the money and they’ll say the government has plenty of money or can just print more. Despite the college education, they are completely ignorant of the basic principles of economics.


7 posted on 12/29/2011 4:01:39 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Obama in 2012!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
I suggest that parents give less money to their college-age/voting-age children and tell them that they have to cut back because their taxes are going up, and that the liberals in academia are raising tuition costs.
8 posted on 12/29/2011 4:03:00 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: mandaladon

Let’s see now - - - 25 % like Socialism, 99% are the OWS in Obamavilles, 47 % pay no personal FIT, and the rest don’t like anybody very much!


9 posted on 12/29/2011 4:03:01 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: bigdirty

Oh come on. I’ve been home from work for two weeks. I’ve played with my family, watched tv, and done some puttering. I’ve put on a couple pounds. It’s been awesome. If someone would pay my bills, I wouldn’t go back to work.

Of course, that’s a big if, since I’ve been paying others’ bills for half a century. Still, if you were to poll me, I’d raise my hand for MeTV and bloody mary’s. That’s the fun of polls — they have no consequences.


10 posted on 12/29/2011 4:04:59 PM PST by wizwor
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To: mandaladon

Blacks and Hispanics? That figures. Does anything else needs to be said?


11 posted on 12/29/2011 4:09:58 PM PST by Logical me
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To: mandaladon

They left has been working for this for many years. Not surprising at all.


12 posted on 12/29/2011 4:10:35 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11A)
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To: mandaladon
Plenty of our fellow citizens agree with Marxist philosophy: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Sean Hannity makes this point quite often in his man on the street interviews.

13 posted on 12/29/2011 4:12:14 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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I’m shocked that the percentage of Americans who want socialism is only 25%.


14 posted on 12/29/2011 4:13:10 PM PST by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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To: mandaladon

THIS is why Obama won’t be easy to beat in November. This country has gotten so “gimme happy” I wonder if we can ever recover.


15 posted on 12/29/2011 4:14:33 PM PST by teletech (Say NO to RINOS!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

That was my first thought (Churchill’s quote) when I read this..


16 posted on 12/29/2011 4:15:58 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: mandaladon
Socialism is when the purpose of government is to mandate or manage a society so strictly that desired social outcomes are achieved. To do this, an overarching economic control is required — communism, fascism, despotism or totalitarianism. This can also take the form of the tyranny of the majority through a locked in social-democrat party system.

The correct contrast to socialism is a free society where the goal of government is to stay limited, establish general order and to allow free interaction of its citizens. It can be done with limited government of modest cost. It needs no special funding and freedom of individual commerce and individual industry is generally termed capitalism — a term popularized by Marx is describing its supposed evils.

The poll is dishonest in its choices. The true question is: Which do you want, socialism or free society?

17 posted on 12/29/2011 4:16:03 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: mandaladon

More proof that we need a divorce. I just wish that we could get on with it and get it over with.


18 posted on 12/29/2011 4:16:47 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: mandaladon

Thank your public school down the block, the receiving pen universities, and the orchestration trough of academia for such results.

These Marxist led institutions resume in January, continuing, unabated, to working over young Americans, so we can continue lazily to wonder what the heck happened to our country. Their agenda is not even slowed, let alone stopped. Ever.


19 posted on 12/29/2011 4:17:07 PM PST by RitaOK (wRasmussen- the polling standard for accuracy.)
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To: mandaladon
The framing of the question by Pew
has skewed the answer.

The word Capitalism is a pejorative word
created by Marxists to describe Freedom and Liberty.

The poll would have had a different outcome if they had
asked if they wanted Freedom or Liberty.

Pew research is a PROGRESSIVE polling operation.


20 posted on 12/29/2011 4:20:10 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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