42% of Democrats are in Favor of Socialism

[Toro]

Despite all the nuttiness in the GOP, this is a big reason why I'm a Republican.

Many Democrats are feeling the love for socialism.

More than four in 10 Democrats say they have a favorable opinion of socialism, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults released in January by data and research firm YouGov; this percentage is nearly identical to what the researchers found in May of last year. Meanwhile, only about one in three say they have an unfavorable opinion of the ideology. ...

On the whole, nearly half of all Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of socialism, the YouGov survey revealed.​

42% of Democrats are in favor of socialism

 

[TNHarley]

Because they are naïve and lazy
All economic/political/property theories have good aspects to them. It is the end game and how they go about it that you have to recognize.
From your link(then click on yougov link), it seems to be mostly "young adults" 18-29. Which, stands by my first point lol.
These people come up thinking everyone/thing, even the Earth, owes you something. Its bullshit.

 

[peach174]

Too bad that that 42% can't go over to Europe and live there for 6 months to a year to find out the bad things of Socialism.

 

[Contumacious]

Despite all the nuttiness in the GOP, this is a big reason why I'm a Republican.

Many Democrats are feeling the love for socialism.

More than four in 10 Democrats say they have a favorable opinion of socialism, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults released in January by data and research firm YouGov; this percentage is nearly identical to what the researchers found in May of last year. Meanwhile, only about one in three say they have an unfavorable opinion of the ideology. ...

On the whole, nearly half of all Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of socialism, the YouGov survey revealed.​

42% of Democrats are in favor of socialism

Progressivism is democratese is SOCIALISM

 

[Stephanie]

that is do to Brainwashing and should scare the hell out of the rest of us who prefers FREEDOM and living in a Free country. good gawd

 

[Moonglow]

They ask a whole 1,000 out of hundreds of millions and you expect people to believe the poll results are true to the actual mood of the nation?
I know the idiots will believe it..

 

[Pogo]

They ask a whole 1,000 out of hundreds of millions and you expect people to believe the poll results are true to the actual mood of the nation?
I know the idiots will believe it..

More to the point --- did the poll even ask or define what respondents think the term means and whether they buy the McCarthyesque perversions of it?

Seems more like a poll on the terminology than on stuff like social security and public libraries.


{EDIT} Confirmed. The full poll is posted here. It gives no description or definition of the terms "socialism", captialism" or "democratic socialism", meaning the definition is left entirely to the respondent, which of course will vary tremendously according to what each respondent understands the terms to mean.

And that in turn means it's a poll about the terminology, not the ideology. It cannot mean anything else.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

They ask a whole 1,000 out of hundreds of millions and you expect people to believe the poll results are true to the actual mood of the nation?
I know the idiots will believe it..

That's usually how demographic polls work and the 18-29 is the entitled crowd, thinking they're owed everything. A few of them still have good work ethic but a majority are bottom feeders.

 

[whitehall]

Typical low information democrat base. What's in it for me and damn the Country.

 

[Stephanie]

Mods: Please do something about the Troll VOR and his sidekick Carla Danger.

they are both back to Stalking people

thanks

 

[nat4900]

Too bad that that 42% can't go over to Europe and live there for 6 months to a year to find out the bad things of Socialism.

Sounds to me that you've probably never been much outside of your trailer park, and certainly NEVER been to Europe...American "exceptionalism" has completely bullshitted most conservatives to deride the rest of the industrial world that enjoys longer life spans and a much, much happier populace.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You're all spot on. I see these kids all the time in my job. Either working for their parents or throwing their applications in the trash. The progressive agenda has caused serious damage to our nation's youth. Especially the poor

 

[Rouge Rover]

42% of democrats are in favor of socialism. 41% of those don't know what it is.

 

[nat4900]

Here are 20 institutions within the U.S. that right wingers don't even realize are socialist:

1, Social Security
2. Medicare and Medicaid
3. The Post Office
4. Public Schools and Colleges and Universities
5. Libraries
6. Water Treatment Systems
7. Recreational Centers, including Gyms, Parks, Beaches
8. National Parks
9. Public Transit Systems, Trains, Subways, Buses
10.Police, Firefighters, Sanitation Services, Public Hospitals
11.Military Services and Protection
12.Labor Protections
13.Food and Drug Regulations
14.Environmental Protections
15.Financial Institutions Regulations
16.Transportation Safety Regulations
17.Housing Regulations
18.Energy Regulations
19.Military Veterans Protections
20.Homeland Security Protections

 

[Stephanie]

the trolling is bad again. nat has taken to becoming one along with the vor and Carla danger. Is there nothing we can do to stop them harassing us? reporting it over and over might help.

 

[Pogo]

They ask a whole 1,000 out of hundreds of millions and you expect people to believe the poll results are true to the actual mood of the nation?
I know the idiots will believe it..

More to the point --- did the poll even ask or define what respondents think the term means and whether they buy the McCarthyesque perversions of it?

Seems more like a poll on the terminology than on stuff like social security and public libraries.


{EDIT} Confirmed. The full poll is posted here. It gives no description or definition of the terms "socialism", captialism" or "democratic socialism", meaning the definition is left entirely to the respondent, which of course will vary tremendously according to what each respondent understands the terms to mean.

And that in turn means it's a poll about the terminology, not the ideology. It cannot mean anything else.

Since no common definition is established, in effect the question this poll asks is "do you have a favorable or unfavorable emotional association with the term socialism? That tells us virtually nothing about Bernie Sanders, or about the practice of socialism itself. It tells far more about those who have exploited the term, from Adolf Hitler to the USSR to the McCarthyists.

 

[Rouge Rover]

Here are 20 institutions within the U.S. that right wingers don't even realize are socialist:

1, Social Security
2. Medicare and Medicaid
3. The Post Office
4. Public Schools and Colleges and Universities
5. Libraries
6. Water Treatment Systems
7. Recreational Centers, including Gyms, Parks, Beaches
8. National Parks
9. Public Transit Systems, Trains, Subways, Buses
10.Police, Firefighters, Sanitation Services, Public Hospitals
11.Military Services and Protection
12.Labor Protections
13.Food and Drug Regulations
14.Environmental Protections
15.Financial Institutions Regulations
16.Transportation Safety Regulations
17.Housing Regulations
18.Energy Regulations
19.Military Veterans Protections
20.Homeland Security Protections

Right on cue it shows up.

 

[regent]

Or as a former Republican president said: "But this does not mean that we may not with great advantage adopt a certain set of principles professed by some given set of men who happen to call themselves socialists: to be afraid to do so would make a mark of weakness on our part."

 

[nat4900]

BTW, right wingers, Iowa and many other states' farm subsidies are SOCIALIST

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

42% of democrats are in favor of socialism. 41% of those don't know what it is.

Free college bruh!

Lol