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Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
« on: May 21, 2019, 06:42:03 PM »
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-form-socialism.aspx

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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.

Scary times to think that 40 percent of Americans like socialism.
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Re: Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2019, 10:20:31 PM »
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-form-socialism.aspx

Scary times to think that 40 percent of Americans like socialism.

Unfortunately, there are just a lot of un-educated (in politics; not in the broad sense) people out there who have been propagandized by the Left non-stop for the last fifteen years or so that everything good in life is socialism.  I've had Leftists try to claim this at me for ages.

Roads? Those are socialism.
Fire departments? Socialism.
Police departments? Those are socialism so long as they're not shooting unarmed Black kids for no reason, then they're unbridled capitalism.
Electricity? Socialism.
The internet? Socialism.
Cold beer? Socialism.
Bacon? Yep, that's socialism, too.

It's all BS, of course, but that whole "argument" got a big boost from Barry "you didn't build that" Obama, and it has stuck with a lot of people who just don't know better.  If they were made to see that in actuality, Venezuela is socialism, Cuba (the real Cuba) is socialism, North Korea is socialism, they would change their tune very quickly indeed.

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Re: Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2019, 12:05:26 AM »
Basically the part that thinks it will get more than it has to pit in...which shows how little they know about Socialism as actually implemented.
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