The poll results are pretty interesting:
Over the longer term, Americans have become less positive about most of the market-oriented concepts Gallup tracks. Since 2010, positive views of big business have fallen by 14 percentage points, free enterprise by nine points and capitalism by six points. Small business is the exception, with views of it unchanged. Meanwhile, positive impressions of socialism have risen by seven points.
It’s a great first step, now to to teach the libs that socialism isn’t the government doing stuff.
I mean it’s become obvious that capitalism isn’t benefiting anyone but the rich at this point so it’s natural for people to look for something else. 🤷
Kind of a misleading headline and article. Literally, the survey they’re citing just asked randos “What do you think of [political ideology/topic]?” and reported the rates of responses. It doesn’t account for how “socialism” is a nebulous term colloquially, or that welfare liberals have readily appropriated many socialist talking points and rhetoric. This is more accurately read as, “Americans don’t like big business, take ‘socialism’ as an alternative; oh also it went down among the purportedly more ‘leftist’ Dem voters.”
Literally, the survey they’re citing just asked randos “What do you think of [political ideology/topic]?” and reported the rates of responses.
“This article is so misleading! All they did was survey people to ask if they approve of the thing and then directly report how many of them approve of the thing. How dare they
obtain a representative sample“ask randos”. I mean for crying out loud, they didn’t even lead the respondents based on assumptions I’ve made about their knowledge! And the fact it went very marginally down among Democrats somehow negates that it shot up among independents, making it even misleadingerer!!”This is more accurately read as, "Americans don’t like big business, take ‘socialism’ as an alternative
Ah, yes, and your brilliant insight explains why, uh:
- Support for big business absolutely plummeted among Democrats over the last half-decade while support for socialism stayed functionally the same.
- Support for big business and socialism among Republicans is roughly positively correlated.
- Independents’ support for big business and socialism is a historical mix of positive and negative correlation.
“I looked at the graph for three seconds and saw clear as day that those two trend lines intersected, which has to mean they’re being substituted.”
Look at you making the same mistakes. Hey, what about anything you said address the issues with perception of “socialism” as it exists in American culture, which was the main issue? The results don’t mean anything because they asked the participants to apply their own understanding to the terms. What the fuck does that do?
They could have asked based on specific policies, values, talking points, etc., but they simplified it to generic, undefined terms. This is populist vibe reading, nothing substantial. You think this sample could tell the difference between welfare liberalism and socialism?
The results don’t mean anything because they asked the participants to apply their own understanding to the terms. What the fuck does that do?
It literally tells us their own perception of the terms. The information you’re demanding is different, and there’s an obvious and interesting discrepancy between the favorability of certain policies versus the language used to describe them.
The purpose of polls is not to educate people. It’s to figure out what they think in their dumb misinformed animal minds.
Unironically very funny to talk down about people’s dumb animal minds while actively misunderstanding the usability of a survey based on vibes without accounting for vibes.
This survey is useful for tracking attitudes about concepts over time (and for guiding rhetorical strategy). It doesn’t tell us if people like socialism. It tells us about their perception of that word (use-mention distinction).
Folks perceive the same thing differently depending on how it’s phrased, obamacare vs the ACA, for instance. Ever heard of manufacturing consent? If the word “socialism” is losing negative connotation, that’s quite telling. I’d also like to emphasize that human intelligence is impossible to underestimate.
Why would you comment the same (bs) line twice in different threads?
yOu eVEr hEaR aBouT aPprOPriAtIOn? You’re demonstrating exactly why this is a dumbshit survey. It could just as easily mean that it is being effectively appropriated and had its meaning changed you DENSE motherfucker. It doesn’t actually tell us anything if we just assume the word itself is what was stigmatized.
For fuck’s sake, baby’s first peer review.
These are different questions. We can survey people about specific policies (which happen to be socialistic) and those rates will be much much higher. But that’s not what we are currently asking.
Okay, so what do these results tell us, exactly? That there are Americans in this sample who like “small business” more than “big business,” what does that do?
People’s attitudes towards a particular word.
If that word loses negative connotation, that’s incredibly telling (for lots of rhetorical and sociopolitical reasons). To be clear, the survey says nothing about the meaning of that word or what it refers to.
Telling of what? Again, what does it mean? Because I’m guessing, based on the shit responses in thread, that you guys are skipping some steps. What is it telling?
Are you actually asking? It’s indicative of shifting cultural norms.
Step 1: Make healthcare unaffordable so companies can make lots of extra money.
Step 2: Call people who want to provide basic things like adequate healthcare socialists or communists.
Step 3: ???
Step 4:
Lose the electionProfit!!!The capitalists can’t lose the election since both parties are bought and paid for.
We need strong 3rd parties.
And many more representatives so that they can be more representative of the population.
We need to get rid of FPTP. You mathematically can’t have third parties in a FPTP system, but that wasn’t proven until over 70 years after The Union was formed.
I hadn’t thought of that, but that makes sense.
Third parties are immediately quashed by the machine.
Like them or not, DSA candidates have the right of it; infiltrate the parties and effect changes from within. You cannot simply erase one of the two parties without a vast majority responding to the blatant power grab violently.
Unless you want a full blow violent revolution. In which case do you boo boo, but I would much rather a more peaceful solution for my children to witness.
I, for one, would return to protesting if it were a full blow revolution. 🤷🏼♂️
You for one, would continue doing nothing if a revolution happened.
You don’t show on the front lines today, so you will continue to do effectively nothing to support the front lines in the future.
I show up to the ICE OUT protests daily, knowing my face has been recorded, and my identity is in a Palantir database.
If they want to come get me, they better be prepared to lose a minimum of 3 agents and a maximum of 16 before I stop using the training they, the military and boy scouts, gave me against them
Oh look, a badass.
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