Posted on 04/09/2009 8:18:42 AM PDT by rightwinggoth
Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.
Investors by a 5-to-1 margin choose capitalism. As for those who do not invest, 40% say capitalism is better while 25% prefer socialism.
There is a partisan gap as well. Republicans - by an 11-to-1 margin - favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.
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The surprise here isn’t that so many younger respondents think they would prefer Socialism, it’s that so few do.
My God. This is what we are up against. The 27% who didn’t know, probably didn’t know the difference.
This is what happens when you let Socialists take over our education system.
Most people, especially the young, have no idea of what capitalism is, or how it works. The brainwashing in our public schools and institutes of “higher” learning has been most effective in generating a cohort of truly ignorant people who have no clue as to HOW to be an American.
Who says “Communism is dead!”
That’s the reason we have “o” in our White House!
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism,37% have brains the rest are brain dead.
Clearly - these folks should be denied the vote in matters that effect the Republic.
I think more people know about socialism than we know and don’t like it. As people actually see how it will effect them, as in our government, they will turn against it. Education is the key.
Or who are just annoyed by pollsters. Idunno is usually the quickest answer to get through a poll when one sneaks through.
Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him. - Ayn Rand
The commies said they would take over through our schools, unions and government. They have done a good job with their commie teachers and professors brainwashing our young.
Yep, and since Zero and his ilk consider 52% an overwhelming majority, a landslide, a mandate, then he should most assuredly listen to the 53% who say they prefer capitalism....
As it was with the wage and price freezes, inflation, and micro-mismanagement of Nixon/Ford/Carter, our the pain Obama brings us will be our teacher.
Not terribly surprising. Nobody really likes capitalism during a recession, not that socialism is any better but we are living in that part of the cycle where even Adam Smith would admit capitalism can suck sometimes. Ask the question 10 years ago before the .com meltdown when capitalism was all wine and roses and you’ll get closer to 80%.
I would be curious to see the results if the term “Free Enterprise” was used instead of “Capitalism”.
Or, it may suggest a successful propaganda campaign by the socialists in the MSM and the National Education Association. Don't worry -- free markets are next on the hit list.
Ignorance, ignorance and ignorance. For nearly a century, the left has done everything in its power to create ignorant citizens and voters. A group of 60 years olds going back to high school today would be stunned at the subject matter taught to kids. Useless, trivial, misrepresented, distorted, history rewritten until unrecognizable. Four years of moral equivalence and America bashing.
1963 Congressional record on Communist Goals in America
“#17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.”
See this site for the rest.....
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