Posted on 10/22/2020 7:17:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The fifth Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism has been released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC). The news is not good if these findings are to be looked upon as the direction in which our country is going. Capitalists beware, Socialism is gaining in popularity, especially among the younger generations.
On information gathering, it is described as the following: “The report, polled by internationally recognized research and data firm YouGov, synthesizes data from 2,100 representative U.S. respondents ages 16 and older, and the margin of error is plus or minus 2.32%.”
Socialism is a more favorable term now and the younger generation thinks that President Trump is “the greatest threat to world peace.” Never mind that Trump is the only president in recent memory to not start a war. The Orange Man is bad.
This year’s study showed increased favorability of the term ‘socialism’ (49%) among Gen Z compared to 2019 (40%). Opinions of capitalism declined slightly from 2019 to 2020 among all Americans (58% to 55%), with Gen Z (ages 16-23) slightly up (49% to 52%) and Millennials (ages 24-39) down (50% to 43%). 35% of Millennials and 31% of Gen Z support the gradual elimination of the capitalist system in favor of a more socialist system.
It also showed growing concern for Donald Trump as president, especially among younger generations of Americans, with 34% of Gen Z and 35% of Millennials seeing him as the greatest threat to world peace, up 8% and 7% from 2019, respectively. This sentiment held true regarding his handling of the pandemic as well, with 39% of Gen Z and 32% of Millennials believing Trump is more responsible for COVID-19 becoming a pandemic than Xi Jinping of China. Opinions of America’s inequality grew markedly from 2019 with 68% of Americans thinking that America’s highest earners don’t pay their fair share. Among these Americans, 57% of Gen Z and 60% of Millennials favor a complete change of our economic system away from capitalism — a 14% and 8% increase from 2019, respectively.
Marion Smith, Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, says that it “shocks the conscience” to learn that the president is viewed as more of a threat than all the brutal dictators in the world and that four out of ten respondents believe that America is a racist country. She lays the blame on the American school system, as well as the media and popular culture and that is a completely legit conclusion. Anyone who has raised a child in the last 20-30 years knows what she is talking about. American teachers have moved history lessons sharply to the far left’s view of the world, including the history of our own country. One in four Americans wants to eliminate capitalism and embrace socialism. Turn on any primetime television program and the liberal writers are busy promoting everything from social injustice and racial inequality to the LGBTQ agenda. Gen Z and Millennials have been brainwashed from their earliest days. Capitalism is trashed and financial success is looked upon as corrupt. Remember when Obama said, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money”? It was an off TelePrompter remark. Adlibs reveal what politicians like Obama truly believe. Obama is a good example of one who wishes to lead everyone else into socialist reforms (Obamacare, anyone?) while reaping the rewards of capitalism himself. He is being made fabulously wealthy with his deal with Netflix. When has he “made enough money”?
Here are some key takeaways from the VOC’s report:
40% of Americans have a favorable view of socialism, up from 36% in 2019. Socialist sentiment is increasing among younger generations with Gen Z’s favorability at 49%, up from 40% in 2019.
Over a quarter of Americans (26%) support the gradual elimination of the capitalist system in favor of a more socialist system with a surge in support among younger generations (31% of Gen Z and 35% of Millennials).
18% of Gen Z and 13% of Millennials think communism is a fairer system than capitalism and deserves consideration in America.
30% of Gen Z has a favorable view of Marxism, up 6% from 2019, compared to 27% of Millennials, down 9% from 2019.
Over one-third of Americans (39%) are likely to support a member of the Democratic Socialist party for office with greater support among younger generations (51% of Gen Z and 44% of Millennials). 16% of Gen Z and Millennials are likely to support a member of the Communist party for office.
There is also a decline in how proud Americans are of our country. A June Gallup Poll found that only 20% of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are “extremely proud to be an American.” That finding is the lowest percentage of any demographic.
Although a majority of adults in the U.S. still say they are “extremely proud” (42%) or “very proud” (21%) to be American, both readings are the lowest they have been since Gallup’s initial measurement in 2001.
At the same time, 15% of Americans say they are “moderately proud,” 12% “only a little proud” and 9% “not at all proud.”
The Gallup finding is the sixth consecutive year it has fallen to a new low in Gallup’s trend. Both the Gallup poll and the VOC’s report began their polling on these topics before the Trump administration, so any liberal finger-pointing solely at Trump is insincere at best, cynical at worst. As I noted above, the decline in American education has been ongoing for at least two decades, perhaps longer. Many teachers are more interested in teaching their own political idealogy (or the idealogy of their union) than actual historical facts and events. Students have been Howard Zinn’d into believing America is not a force for good in the world but a bad actor and that is very unfortunate. The Greatest Generation who fought so bravely for our freedoms is being replaced by a new wave of Americans who think as those they fought against.
And send them without access to any of their savings in the US.
YouGov globalist poll. IGNORE.
Yes, and this happened even during CoVid, for the most part.
We Americans have so many choices at the stores. We are truly blessed, even during CoVid times.
RE: Hotair, you’re projecting more hot air.
Don’t blame the messenger, they’re simply referring to a report.
Everybody was freaking out because toilet paper supplies were low for awhile. Imagine if bread and milk disappeared for awhile.
If this 40% is accurate, then we need to go on a full court press teaching the nation what a Constitutional Republic is and compare it with socialism. They just don’t know because they have not beeen taught.
Good luck on even finding CATS! Those are long gone. They will be eating DIRT and filling their bellies with lots of water to stop the hunger pangs.
On the plus side, after 1 yr in Venezuela, they'll return much slimmer for having come down from their 289 pounds to a trim 140 pound (or less) and have a greater appreciation for America, Freedom and the real free market Capitalist system.
I'd encourage EVERY liberal arts student to experience a REAL 6 month CommieLand trip, with really living among the natives and sharing in their hardships as part of their coursework before they can graduate.
When they return to the USA, they's all be lifetime Republicans and it's be the best conservative indoctrination experience they will ever have.
I wish people would just answer the socialism thing with the very simple response of, Where does the money that the government uses come from?
It comes from taxes.
Socialism is very expensive as tax rates soar.
NOTHING is for free.
The heads of the younger generation are being filled with mush in the schools.
No, they’re not the biggest fans of Trump. Their support of Trump is squeamish at best.
I tried to buy yeast in case pre-made bread was sporadic. Yeast was very hard to find!
Someone needs to explain to these people that “socialism” isn’t when you’re buddies on social media.
Dear 40 Perecent:
That doesn’t mean the Armed 60 Percent of us are going to accept it quietly.
Or Peacefully.
Just sayin’.
This is the same percentage that has confidence in the mainstream media:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrustful-mass-media.aspx
This is _not_ a coincidence!
Coffehouse snowflake safespace marxists
Yup
You wonder why they dont go to cuba or venezuela to see how it “works” and get everyone’s opinion of how swell it is
I lived in Britain in the 80’s and worked in their NHS. Here are three points to use when arguing with Socialists
1. Socialized Medicine means Government directs/controls ALL the medical community. That also means, when you are denied care (which is common, especially for people who are retired, as they are not paying into the system anymore) there is nowhere else to turn for medical help.
2. Socialized countries don’t just tax your income, they tax accumulated wealth. So your savings, your investments, your retirement accounts.
3. Socialized countries also have a VAT......value added tax on EVERYTHING you buy. That’s why the standard of living is so much lower in Europe. Oh, and when I worked there I wasn’t a registered tech, but they let me work anyway. I was making peanuts because I wasn’t registered and my tax bite was 50%. That was the LOWEST tax bracket at the time. I don’t know what the lowest is now.
a 4% jump in the amount of morons-
Got to listen to Dr Ben Carson give a great speech, on socialism/importance of this election.
He said, as a surgeon, he got to visit Venezuela many times, when it was the pinnacle of S America.
He said, You don’t think that a country can change, overnight, from a thriving, producing nation, to a socialist county, overnight? Look at Venezuela.
He said, the way they transform your country is to take over three things....education, the judicial system and healthcare.
They’ve already got our Education system.
They’re working overtime to take over the other two.
He said healthcare is the linchpin....because everyone is mostly concerned about their health. Once they govern that, they govern you.
Destroy the economy and people become amenable to all sorts of wacky notions.
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