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Yesterday Gallup released the results of a poll that found that while only 36 percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism, 53 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of self-described liberals view it favorably.
The poll simply presented respondents with terms without definitions and asked them whether their immediate reaction was positive or negative.
This is just another datapoint to suggest that right-wingers are well within their rights to condemn elements of the congressional Democrats' agenda as socialism. After all, if Democratic senators are pursuing levels of government interference that would make even a self-proclaimed socialist balk, they are only doing something that over half their constituents approve of. Socialism is a term that liberals and Democrats want to avoid, but the fact is that socialism is a real form of government, one that is popular in countries across the world. If, as a congressman, some social democratic policy is what you want to enact, you should have the courage in your convictions to call it by its name and say that you like it. After all, your constituents are comfortable doing so for Gallup.
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joe| 2.5.10 @ 8:14PM
no shit, that's why they are Dem's, if they had brains they would learn from history
Jim Hlavac| 2.5.10 @ 10:06PM
Time to just start calling them either the Democratic Socialists, or just the Socialists -- drop the "Democratic" for truth, pride, transparency, and keeping up with the Europeans with whom they are in love. Make them deny it, make them say it, make them prove it, make them admit it -- unrelentingly -- until they are found out and hounded from office.
B. Johnson| 2.6.10 @ 12:25AM
It's ironic how godless Democrats and Liberals are trying to be God, their approach to doing so evidently to try to reduce humanity to an ant colony under their control.
Pingback| 2.6.10 @ 6:09AM
Poll: Majority of Dems, Liberals View Socialism Positively links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
martin j smith| 2.6.10 @ 8:31AM
This mis a pipe dream but: I think that Republicans and Conservatives should in campaigns point out the difference between Conservative ideas versus the Democrat Party ideas . In so doing calling Democrat Party ideas socialist principles--which they are.
Here is one example: There are many Democrats who support Obama Care but ask them this: Supposing you, needed medical treatment and the government refused to allow it. Who would you sue ? Where would you go ? What would you do ?
Oldefarte| 2.6.10 @ 12:46PM
The Democratic Party was previously at war between its two factions, the moderates and the liberals. The former was represented by Clinton who, after numerous presidential losses by liberal Democrats, convinced the party that the only way possible for Democrats to be elected as president was as moderates, not as liberals. The latter was representated by the Kennedys, and they battled Clinton and the moderates for control of the party [and eventually won the battle by nominating/electing Obama with the Kennedys' assistance]. To accompolish that, the liberals had to disguise Obama as a moderate to make him appealing to America, which is moderate, and they did so with the brainwashing assistance of the MSM. Now the liberals are controlling the Democratic Party, and due to Obama's failed policies, the Democratic moderates are now caught between a rock and a hard place on whether to support Obama/liberals, which will result in their own defeat in November+. Unless the moderates can take back control of the Democratic Party from Obama/liberals; their only choice is to defect the party and become Republicans!!!!!!
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The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Poll: Majority of Dems … Tools links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Tex Expatriate| 2.6.10 @ 5:26PM
The vast majority of Dems are socialists. All Liberals are socialists as well---of the marxist variety or the fascist variety.
Glenn Koons| 2.6.10 @ 10:49PM
It seems that since the New Deal onward, many Dems seemingly without knowing it, took socialist pacifism as a way of life that should be. Oh they fought in WWII but as the years went on, the so called military industrial complex seemed to be a huge enemy as even Grandfather Ike proclaimed. And the '60's did them all in. They were going to love the Federal Govt., tyranny and all as long as they got theirs from...somebody's else's hard work and money. Now they love socialist dogma as long as they think it is somehow, bank, business, conservative,Pub money. Never thinking that all those taxes they pay go to pay for the Dem Welfare State. And on it goes till we are all bankrupt, even the inane liberals. It will be interesting to see how the Nov. elections play out as Obama and his minions in Congress and in so many Blue state legislatures keep taxing and spending us into economic ruin with few jobs.
Thomas| 2.7.10 @ 6:44AM
Polling democrats and liberals to guage their support of socialism?! Gee, here on the farm, we don't need a poll to understand the relationship between a parasite and it's host.
martin j smith| 2.7.10 @ 8:39AM
There are many conspiracy theories than one could enumerate about FDR but I did have the impression that he supported the giving the USSR control of eastern Europe. I also believe that there were many Communists in our government that were not in the highest positions whose children now populate various bureaucracies,courts,schools you name it. Lets not also forget Holly wood and the Media This has been going on decades and largely ignored until now. until now. It is funny in way that Obama denies he is a Bolshevik yet most all his policies certainly point to him as an ideologue of a Left Socialist if not Communist type. Well--he was right about his identity in the first place. His policies must be opposed and questioned.
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The Mexican Invasion and Occupation: Who Pays? ANOTHER FORM OF … | Educational Oklaho links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
JimE| 2.7.10 @ 8:51PM
THEY ARE SOCIALISTS BECAUSE THEY ARE F##KIN RETARDS!
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Latino leadership needed to counter TX State Board of Education's … | Educational Ala links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Only a Liberal… » 36% of Americans are REALLY ignorant links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
sign| 5.8.10 @ 3:49AM
Calling President Obama a "socialist" may not carry the punch some of his opponents had hoped for, given a new poll that found Americans are "not so negative" about the word and young people have essentially the same feelings about "socialism" as they do the word "capitalism."
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