The Democrats and Socialist Contradiction

American Thinker.com ^ | January 31, 2020 | Dave Ball

[Kaslin]

When is a socialist not a socialist? When he or she is a Democrat.

Many people are perplexed that in the middle of one of the greatest economic periods in our nation’s history, the longest economic expansion on record, at a time when more people are doing well than ever before, so many people appear have such an attraction to what they call socialism. Many were shocked when a Gallup poll earlier this year found that 43 percent of Americans believe socialism would be a good thing for America and a later Pew Poll found 42 percent of Americans expressed a positive view of socialism.

The Gallup poll was an attitude survey exploring how American’s attitudes toward socialism have changed over the years. The Gallup survey indicated that American’s definition of Socialism has changed. Today, nearly a quarter of Americans associate socialism with social equality and only 17 percent associate it with the classical economic definition of controlling the means of production. Ever since 2010, a majority of Democrats polled by Gallup have viewed socialism positively.

In an interesting variation to the question on preference for socialism, Gallup asked its respondents whether they would prefer government control or a free market in a number of market and societal activities. The answers were mixed.

The respondents strongly favored a free market in technological innovation (76 percent), distribution of wealth (68 percent), the economy overall (62 percent) and wages (62 percent). They favored government control of environmental protection (66 percent) and protecting consumer privacy online (57 percent).

[Erik Latranyi]

When there is prosperity, people tend to care more about “the other guy” and more willing to support socialism.

Kennedy’s tax cuts and economy led to the Great Society programs that only made matters worse and have become untouchable and unreformable.

[Rurudyne]

Whatever socialism is called, democracy is only tolerable to the Left insofar as it leads to socialism.

The way many Leftist want to arrange things is that the only legitimate vote is a yes vote for them, but once we finally get them votes, real votes, will become a think of the past.

Voting “no”, like efforts to repeal earlier yes votes, are intolerable ... the deeds of Deplorables.

As they say: you can vote for socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.

And if the socialists get their way you won’t have guns to shoot your way out.

[JimRed]

Socialists are merely communists who have not started the killing...yet.

[jmacusa]

And as Lenin said “The goal of socialism is communism’’.