Posted on 05/12/2019 3:40:33 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
In an appearance on FNC's "MediaBuzz," pollster Frank Luntz shares his finding that the term "capitalism" no longer polls well with the American people and predicts that Senator Bernie Sanders is the most likely to win the Democratic nomination for president with a message of democratic socialism.
"It is not that principles are dead, in fact, the principles of economic freedom are alive and well," Luntz explained. "But capitalism itself has been so demonized by media that... if you want to oppose socialism you oppose it by talking about freedom, not capitalism."
HOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS: An exclusive first look at a poll about socialism versus capitalism. It turns out the ideas pushed by Democrats such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have lots of support in their party, while capitalism isn't polling so well.Frank Luntz found in an online survey of 1,000 people that 52% of Hillary Clinton voters agree with the statement "I prefer living in a socialist country to a capitalist one," against just 16% of Donald Trump voters. Asked about the AOC proposal to impose a 70% tax on the top 1% of taxpayers, 79% Clinton voters agree, and so do 46% of Trump voters. And veteran Republican pollster Frank Luntz joins us now. Before we get to more numbers, is the media kind of soft on socialism? I mean favorable press to Democrats like Bernie Sanders and AOC, being tough on flaws of capitalism, the excesses of big corporations.
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You may not like Frank Luntz the pollster, but sometimes he did hit right on the nail.
As I was told just recently - "Capitalism is a phony term created by Marx anyway."
Free enterprise
This is why the MSM is so quick to crown Uncle Joe as the Democrat nominee because they think he has the only chance to win. They don’t think Comrade Sanders or any other of the clowns already announced can win.
Capitalism Has Become A Dirty Word until you get Raped by Socialism
Think how amazing that sounds for a moment.
How screwed have we become...
“Sometimes he did hit right on the nail!”
Yeah, and stopped clock is right twice a day!
Frank Luntz is the “resident fat turd” on Fox! He and Jerrold Nadler (aka Nadless) eat at the same hog trough!
Thanks Sir Napsalot. Unless he dies in the interim, Biden will be the nominee. Regardless of who wins the Demagogic Party nomination, the VP nominee will be Buttplug from South Bendover.
Little know secret - leftist radicals do not enjoy the ‘socialist’ label.
The mantra NEEDS to be do you prefer Socialism OR Freedom, change capitalism to freedom and freedom WILL WIN every time!!! This is the work of college professors damning capitalism HOWEVER even millennials won’t be willing to give up Freedom!!!
>> pollster Frank Luntz shares his finding that the term “capitalism” no longer polls well with the American people
uh huh, that’s why everyone under 60 is working on a side hustle to bring in additional cash and trying to monetize so much activity.
I’m not sure he even knows which end of the hammer to hold onto
That's true but ironically it's the correct term.
Free enterprise isn't free. There's always going to be some regulation and taxes involved, regardless if it's at the local, state, or federal level. Might as well embrace the term and redefine it like the Left has done with the word Progressive.
Right you are “FREE ENTERPRISE and FREEDOM”. Capitalism was the derogatory name marx gave to FREE ENTERPRISE.
“Capitalism” -George Reisman (1996)
I aint skeered.
>>As I was told just recently - “Capitalism is a phony term created by Marx anyway.”
I’ve been thinking along those terms the past couple of years myself.
Meanwhile in France, the riots continue.
Of course capitalism is a dirty word.
When the socialized schools and colleges and media beat the drum, continuously that capitalism is bad and the cause of all life’s ills and NEVER talk about Venezuela or Russia or Cuba or China or North Korea or... you get a bunch of mind numbed robots that spew the party line.
Same as global warming.
And much of this was driven by Obama and the socialist forces and continues to fostered on us.
Yep. He meant capitalist as a insult. But, unlike liberals who abandon their names, capitalists embraced it just like Deplorables and my refusal to abandon Nationalist.
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