42% of Democrats are in favor of socialism

Just 17% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of the ideology

Reuters
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist.”

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.

The polling comes as Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist,” is considered the front-runner to capture the New Hampshire primary on the Democratic side. Sanders has described the term as meaning that we “create a government that works for all and not just the few.”

Among Republicans, those numbers look significantly different: Just 17% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of socialism, while 71% have an unfavorable opinion of it. And for the most part — no matter what the party — it is young people who are most in favor of socialism. Fully 49% of people ages 18 to 29 have a favorable opinion of socialism, compared with just 23% of those 65 and up.

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

That may explain why, in a separate survey, less than half of Americans said they would vote for a socialist president (sorry, Bernie). Indeed, only 47% of Americans said they would vote for a president who was a socialist, according to a survey of 1,500 adults released by Gallup last year, which looked at 11 types of candidates people would be willing to vote for, including a woman, gay or lesbian, Muslim and evangelical.

Among Democrats, 59% would do it, while among Republicans just 26% would. “Republicans and Democrats differ most in their willingness to vote for a socialist candidate, by 33 percentage points,” according to the Gallup data.

Table: Who are Americans willing to vote for?

Democrats Republicans
Evangelical Christian 66% 84%
Mormon 79% 84%
Jewish 92% 95%
Catholic 95% 93%
Hispanic 94% 91%
Black 96% 90%
Woman 97% 91%
Atheist 64% 45%
Gay or lesbian 85% 61%
Muslim 73% 45%
Socialist 59% 26%
Source: Gallup


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flash
flash

Who can argue how we arrived on this road to fiscal and social ruin?

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http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenny.pdf

http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2016/02/mailvox-womans-take-on-female-suffrage.html
I read “Mailvox: Stampeding the Sheep” with great interest. The first time I ever heard someone suggest that women should not vote was my mother when I was a child. I am 47 years old so it was some years ago. The second time I heard this was from you. I use to think my mom was just nuts, but her words left me wondering. Here’s why:

Invincible: I believed I could do everything a man could. I graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, served as an intel and targeting officer for 7 years before realizing my true vocation was wife and mother. Although my mom despised women in general, she hated the idea that I married (right after graduating) and started to have kids. She was terrified I would be completely dependent on a man like she was. Why is this important? Simply because the feminists have ingrained in my generation a complete (and unreasonable) fear of male dominance.
Vote: Why should women not vote? I thought about this for years. I consider myself more intelligent, more politically astute, and more educated/well-read than most men. However, that does not outweigh one important limitation: emotion. This is what you brought up in your post. Unlike men, women must be TAUGHT not to act on their emotions. For us, this is an immediate response to whatever happens around us (perhaps this is one of the reasons we immediately bond with our babies so it’s not a bad thing if used correctly). Men, on the other hand, hold back their emotions, but if they do not eventually act, they explode. My experience tells me women explode immediately without thought and men explode later with thought. Most women vote because of how they FEEL. Bad move. It has destroyed our societies and made us completely dependent on government.
Need: Women also have an innate need to be cared for, protected, and loved. This is why the male European inaction regarding the Muslim invasion is so appalling. The problem is the Baby Boomers are responsible for two generations (Gen X and the Millennials) that are incapable of doing anything (Yes, I blame the Baby Boomers, but I also blame the so called Greatest Generation who coddled, spoiled, and raised them). Women just replaced their men with a colder, harsher, less faithful spouse, the government. Unfortunately, while men are neutered, women think they are Black Widow.
Black Widow: I really believed I could be as strong, as fast, and as fierce as any man. I just had to work hard. Why? Because the feminists who indoctrinated me said so. I’m ex military, dabbled in martial arts, love cross-fit, and keep a personal trainer. No matter what I try to do physically, I CANNOT compete with a man (OK, I can compete with the young teenage boys). The only thing that evens out this playing field is a gun (arm up feminists because men aren’t going to help you). The feminists set their little darling daughters up for complete failure. We could not compete in this way, but our mom’s insisted our self-worth must be measured against a man’s. What did that mean? ALL women are failures by this standard. That reality hit me hard because it meant women are useless (this kind of supports the Muslim teachings doesn’t it? Thanks, feminists. No wonder you are silent with Islamic FGM)
Baby Making: Yep. This is what completes a woman. It is not to say that some women cannot succeed in careers. Many have exceptional skills and should pursue their God given talent. However, the feminists told us making babies is for stupid women (you know, the surrogates they pay to have their babies for them). That’s NOT true. The first time I felt that I actually accomplished something, was the day I first held my daughter.
Men: My fear of only men having the vote was unfounded. My man would NEVER vote against his family’s best interest. Neither would any man I know. There is a trade off, however. Men, you need to man up and demand your rights. That means putting women in their place which, according to my Catholic teaching, is above you. This is what distinguishes the Christian West from the rest of the world. As life-bearers, women continue life, nurture it, and sustain it. We pass on culture, tradition, and history. This is why Islam cannot coincide with Christians: they hate, despise, and denigrate women. I believe the primary reason the Islamic world is such a hellhole is because the proper role of women was annihilated. Well, the West has also harmed the proper role of women, just not to the same degree as Islam (Islam also has the benefit of more than 1000 years to make their brain damage permanent). Men must reassert their proper place and women need to climb back onto their pedestal.

I have so much more to say, but I am grateful if you read this. Mr. Day, you are right and if more men stand up, women will be much happier. Most of my generation don’t even know what happened because we never saw what the Baby Boomers had (their moms in their proper and much happier roles in the home). I’ve seen both sides of this issue. The feminists built a very dark place for their daughters. Will we recognize what they did before it comes crashing down? I doubt it. Perhaps Islam will open women’s eyes to what they have and thank God everyday for Christianity. If we want men to protect us, we cannot vote against them. They alone must have this power.

SpecOpsAlpha
SpecOpsAlpha

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Back in PA Mike
Back in PA Mike

They reap what they sow. Bernie might be more free market than any of the Republicans. What does that say?

rhs jr
rhs jr

The big problem is Liberalism and no women worldwide per se. Unfortunately, American women have been brainwashed that way (and some sissy boys like Bruce Jenner). I think that before the Romans destroyed the Celts (except Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany), the woman were as respected as men. Women like you and Schlafly, Malkin, Coulter, Barnhardt, Dash, Geller, Crowley, Bachman, Pirro etc, are trying to raise the bar and may God bless ya’ll.

Anonymous
Anonymous

FWIW,

One of our largest and looming financial problems is the SS system which grew out of socialist Huey Long’s “Share our Wealth” agenda in the 30’s.

Socialism always fails, sometimes when its implementation is slow it takes a while and people accept it as it takes over the way a frog accepts slowly boiled water. When the failure finally takes place and the system collapses in on itself they never seem to understand why, usually blaming it on anything and everything other than its flawed and fatal root concepts.

Dutchman
Dutchman

People are turning to socialism because what we have now is a big dysfunctional lie.

#1. The free market no longer exists. We have been lied to, scammed, taxed to death, maniplulated economically, financialized, held hostage by the sick care industry, ripped off on college debt, and have seen our real net work decline.

When a system (formely free markets) doesn’t support logical, reasonable choices – people look else where.

#2. Less jobs, less pay. Connectivity of software is improving. I did my taxes with Turbo Tax, they can automatically pull in 1099’s, W-2’s etc. What took me a trip to the CPA (4 hrs) and $1,000 – I did with Turbo Tax in 2 hrs and it was $125. More and more cube farm workers are going to be replaced – I know – I write that kind of software.

#3. With the advent of new technologies, more and more people are getting left behind, cause they either don’t have the intelligence or are unfocused. This is a growing number of people who may never be employed.

So – socialism is the answer – because it provides everything and it’s fair 🙂

methatbe
methatbe

The conservative mantra is to privatize profits and socialize debt. Any subsidy is a form of socialism and it amazes me that the beneficiaries of a subsidy don’t see it that way.

overthecliff

Democrats have been democratic socialists for 80 years. They are just liars who have seldom admitted what they are. Republicans are rightwing fascist crony capitalists for about the same amount of time. They never admit it.

Democrats = free shitters who want to steal your stuff and not work.

Republicans=crony capitalists who want to steal your stuff and pretend that they worked and earned what they stolefrom someone else.

Nothing New.

the tumbleweed
the tumbleweed

42% of Democrats are smart enough to realize that what we’ve had for the last 7 years isn’t working. The same 42% of Democrats are also too stupid to realize that what we’ve had for the last 7 years has been socialism.

How can Clinton and Bernie stand up there and whine that “we need to fix this” and “we need to fix that.” You clowns just had two terms of your greatest political wet dream — Clinton was part of the administration and Sanders was a sitting senator, shouldn’t all our problems be solved right now? Race relations should be excellent, income inequality non-existent, healthcare dilemmas a thing of the past. Yet we are to just to forget that while Obama’s policies have screwed the average citizen a hundred fold, Clinton and Sanders simply advocate for more extreme versions of his nefarious policies.

kokoda
kokoda

flash – right on the mark with the ’emotion’ context.

David
David

So academia and the leftist professors have dumbed down or eliminated history and economics courses sufficiently so that the next generation will go for the big lie.

the tumbleweed
the tumbleweed

That chart is also interesting because it shows that likely Democratic voters are a weird alliance between Muslims and all the people Muslims would like to oppress and possibly stone to death. How long can that go on?

Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze

One form of socialism I despise is the way banking has worked this century. Profits for the few, losses for the masses.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

As I’ve been saying recently, people vote against their own best interests.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/david-cay-johnston-agree-bernie-sanders-article-1.2521997?cid=bitly

Desertrat
Desertrat

The USSR, then, and Venezuela, now, have proven the value of Socialism. As in, “None.” And don’t forget Cuba…

@flash: Heinlein said, “Patriotism means women and children first.” You make an excellent point about a man not voting against the best interests of his family. (Most men, anyway.)

Anonymous
Anonymous

Then let the 42%eat tree bark and grass while the rest of us secede and take our money with us!

Erumpo
Erumpo

hmm didn’t Margaret Thatcher say that the only thing wrong with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money ?

Then What ?

We are living, what in the future, will be known as HISTORY.
Hedge accordingly so that you and yours come out the other side semi intact .

My magic 8 ball keeps giving me the same answer .

Prepare.
Think out the scenarios .
Have a plan .
If you hedge with fire insurance for your house , what other forms of insurance do you need ?
Food?
Water?
Alternative forms of shelter?

Fortune favors the prepared mind . Not my quote .

Rise Up

I told a relative 2 years ago the US was headed towards socialism. They called me crazy.

Roy

In 1944 Friedrich A Hayek wrote “The Road to Serfdom”. He dedicated it to:

THE SOCIALISTS OF ALL PARTIES

Rife
Rife

I’m not planning to vote for him, but would rather have a socialist than a psychopath who would start WWIII.

IndenturedServant

People are turning to socialism because it is the last great hope for continued sloth and gluttony. After socialism fails, first due to violence, then ruin, comes the era of personal responsibility and decades of hard work. No one is ready to sign up for that shit but it’s coming as surely as the sunrise. Personal responsibility and hard work are less popular that getting your head lopped off by a jihadi at the moment!

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