Posted on 05/21/2019 7:46:54 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some form of socialism would be a good or bad thing for the country. While 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would be a good thing. Those results contrast with a 1942 Roper/Fortune survey that found 40% describing socialism as a bad thing, 25% a good thing and 34% not having an opinion.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.gallup.com ...
That’s just it. The people against Socialism are the ones breaking their backs to support all the people that are for Socialism. And we’re almost outnumbered.
No mention of the percentage of VOTERS who support either system.
YMMV.
Huh? I have no love for SS/MC, just kindly return the SS & MC “contributions” I’ve made over the past 30+ years, with 3% compound interest please. Thanks for your help.
As Churchill once said...”capitalism is the worst economic system there is...except for all the others”. (perhaps not an *exact* quote)
You took the words right out of my mouth. 40% is laughably low.
Four in ten support socialism?
Baloney.
Four in ten support a free ride.
What people actually want is democratic socialism, ala the nordic countries.
Nobody wants to live in Venezuela. They want health care and the ability to attend college without 80k in loans.
You did it to yourselves by screwing the kids over, America.
One thing that is NEVER taken into consideration when this tired, misleading line is trotted out is the fact that Nordic countries have the benefit of near-homogeneous populations, therefore skewing the disparity in necessity of its denizens.
Gallup is still using call info from landlines to come up with their polls... Meaning they are essentially worthless.
Four in ten who were educated in the government run schools were successfully indoctrinated on the evils of capitalism and corporations and the lies about the “wonderful secular utopia” that would supposedly result from big powerful government socialism.
Just curious, who do you think is being under sampled by this outdated methodology? Youth vs middle age vs elderly, urban vs rural, etc? What would be the best method to sample today? Besides an actual election of course.
Here’s how most Democrat voters view socialism.....
Socialism=Democrat Party=Free Stuff for me
Don’t try to give the Democrats cover.
See how long they want true socialism when they have to go pick up garbage for their welfare benefits.
True socialism isn’t sitting at home watching Oprah and drinking Coke.
True socialism is getting out and pulling turnips to earn your studio apartment and five pounds of rice every month.
Can’t wait for our turn to look like Venezuela.
The prevalence of Social Media and the “victim” culture has turned people into petty, jealous, and greedy creatures who covet what they see all around them. They see nice houses, cars, and clothes that they want—but have no idea how to earn them for themselves.
6 in 10 Americans reject all forms of socialism. But guess which demographic gets all the press?
Don’t mention changing Social Security around here—if you want to see a bunch of old, red neck conservatives turn into a Bolshevik mob—mention reducing Old Age pensions and benefits.
You will hear a chorus of, “We earned this...” When in reality, they get back almost 100% of the money they put in after three or four years.
Ah, the baby boomer defense. We didn’t screw the kids over. The left, Democrats and RHINOs raised the cost health and education by regulation and subsidy.
People, like me, in the boomer generation opposed the growth of the welfare society at every step. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost.
Want a villain? The drunk, murdering womanizer Teddy Kennedy.
It comes down to semantics and how you phrase things. If you use the narrow definition of Socialism as an economic system where the state owns most of the means of production, then 1% of Americans support socialism. If you define Socialism as any state transfer of wealth from one class of people to another (including SS and Medicare), then 99% support this type of "Socialism" (though I would argue that welfare state capitalism is fundamentally different from state socialism because it doesn't eliminate the profit motive from work and enterprise).
To take a less extreme example, if you poll people and ask them if they support Bernie Sanders' proposal of Medicare for all, a majority might say yes. If you tell the same people that it would mean giving up their private insurance, a majority would say no.
Agreed. This manipulative premise smuggling found its epitome in the British press when the English Channel fogged over. The headline was “Europe cut off from Britain.” LOL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.