For far too long, Americans have been dumbified by corporate marketeers (and by Zionist propaganda, but that is another subject). Since Americans have been educated in mediocre primary and secondary schools, they have no general knowledge to be immune to the propaganda: They believe everything they are fed like a herd of cattle whose managers never refrain from using cattle prods to keep everyone between the lines.
Lies about the ills of socialism have been believed for far too long because ignorant people are brainwashed to choose between "bad words" like socialism on one hand and "good words" like patriotism on the other, without understanding what either word means, when the two have nothing to do with one another. It is easy to be a patriot, you just wave a flag and tear up at some sentimental bullshit that Hollywood feeds you. Patriotism is love of country, and is very different from nationalism, which is hate of other countries. In contrast, socialism is too complex for stupid illiterate people to know what it really is.
Notice how Donald Dumb accuses his opponents of being Marxist, Communists, Socialists, radical left etc.. He doesn't even know what these terms mean. His use of these term infantilizes the American people - like scaring a child with some boogeyman that doesn't really exist - and confines them to one box in which they spend their lives at the mercy of big business and its incestuous relationship with politicians. That is why the US never makes advances, and when it does, everyone around the world adopts these advances except the US because conservative neanderthals hate change. They sit on a golden goose (a dumbified American people) and won't let go of the golden eggs they benefit from at the expense of the American people.
The Republican neanderthals have spent much of the 20th century rejecting any sensible common sense balance between state control and individual freedoms: They are paid by giant corporations to de-regulate everything, leaving the country and its people at the mercy of a handful of greedy companies whose services are far more costly and far more mediocre than what governments offer free of charge. And when they manage to elect a criminal moron like Trump, they begin attacking what Americans have built over decades. For example, they constantly try to sell our own social security taxes, withheld from our paychecks over a lifetime of hard work, to private funds and banks who play our money in the market, and more often than not go bankrupt as they take huge risks. Remember 2008?
[From AI]: The 2008 financial crisis was a major global economic downturn triggered by the collapse of the U.S. housing market, leading to widespread bank failures and a severe recession known as the Great Recession. Key factors included excessive speculation in housing, risky mortgage lending practices, and inadequate financial regulation.
It took decades of fighting against Republicans and conservatives for workers to get six 8-hour workdays a week (instead of 18 hours a day in a 7-day week), to be paid overtime, to be given heathcare, etc. Even social security was attacked as a Socialist idea. All these advances were deemed leftwing, radical, communist and marxist by the right wing conservatives who would be happy to go back to those days, when women slaved without the right to vote, without the right to open a bank account without her husband's permission, without the right to strike, etc.... Would you want to go back to an America that resembles today's Saudi Arabia? If you do, keep voting conservative like an idiot.
Socialism is not an either or proposition. It is not as absolute or radical as the GOP MAGA morons say it is. Virtually every other country, including our major allies (Britain, France, Germany....), around the world practices some form of socialism, i.e. where states and governments keep the lid on greedy capitalist corporations and place individual citizens at the top of their priorities. It is a constant fine tuning between the needs of corporations and the needs of the citizenry. It fluctuates often, sometimes hitting hard on corporations when they get too greedy, or hitting hard on the citizens when they get too needy. That is why all countries with some form of socialism in their governance report a higher index of happiness than in the United States which is generally thought of as heaven on earth, when it is far from that. The US is often reported by visitors to appear like the third world of the first world: Its electric grid is still on poles (instead of in the ground), it still has 110 V power when everyone else has gone to 220 V. It (or its Chinese migrants) built the railroad in the 1800s, but now refuses to upgrade to high speed rail that could cross the entire continent in a flash. High speed rail would render flying and driving somewhat obsolete, and oil and automobile companies continue to fight tooth and nail to prevent any change in the status quo.
Did you know that the electric car was invented at the same time as the gasoline-run combustion engine was invented? But the Nazi antisemite Henry Ford who loved Hitler and his oil corporate allies did everything they could to promote the combustion gasoline-powered automobile. Here we are some 100 years later still trying to shift to a cleaner more efficient automobile while the auto and oil industries keep putting obstacles in the process.
Bottom line: Stop believing like morons the corporate and GOP propaganda that socialism is such an evil to the undefinable "American way of life", another fake marketing slogan shoved into the brains of dumb Americans to keep them from demanding more from their country and its governments.
And now with increased automation, robotization and artificial intelligence invading our lives, millions of Americans will be without jobs over the next decade or so. Companies and big business are already investing in it and are beginning to lay off its workers to generate more profit for their shareholders. They have no solutions to this growing problem because their greed prevents them from adopting the European concept of "solidarity" in which big business MUST redistribute its profits across society. The raw "wild west" capitalism still in existence in the US is such an obsolete notion. Only social solidarity in some form can save the US from the looming disaster.
See example: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/09/corporate-lie-multibillion-dollar.html
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What Americans think about socialism and capitalism, according to a new Gallup poll
AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
Mon, September 8, 2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani greet the crowd during a town hall on Saturday, Sept, 6, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. But that may not be the insult it once was for rank-and-file Democrats, who have warmed to socialism and increasingly see “capitalism” as a barb.
A new Gallup poll finds that while U.S. adults overall are more likely to have a positive view of capitalism than socialism, Democrats feel differently. According to the survey, only 42% of Democrats view capitalism favorably, while 66% have a positive view of socialism.
Capitalism's image has slipped with U.S. adults overall since 2021, the survey finds, and the results show a gradual but persistent shift in Democrats’ support for the two ideologies over the past 15 years, with socialism rising as capitalism falls. The shifts underscore deep divisions within the party about whether open support for socialism will hurt Democrats’ ability to reach moderates or galvanize greater support from people who are concerned about issues like the cost of living.
Those tensions were cast into sharp relief earlier this year when Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, won the Democratic primary in the race for New York City mayor, leading some centrist Democrats to worry about his impact on the party's national brand. Meanwhile, years after independent Sen. Bernie Sanders' insurgent presidential campaigns put a new face and brand on socialism, Sanders is attracting massive crowds with a “fighting oligarchy” tour pushing Democrats to embrace his ideas as they search for a path back to viability.
The new poll, conducted in August among a sample of 1,094 U.S. adults, shows that both younger and older Democrats have both warmed slightly on socialism since 2010. But Democrats under 50 are much less likely to view capitalism favorably, while the opinions of Democrats ages 50 and older haven't shifted meaningfully, according to Gallup.
Other polls suggest that capitalism's waning popularity reflects a growing sense of economic unfairness, rather than a broader rejection of an economic system. Views of free enterprise remain largely positive, according to the new Gallup poll, but perceptions of big business have soured since 2010.
Capitalism declines in popularity
Just over half of U.S. adults, 54%, have a positive view of capitalism, according to the new survey, a slight decline from 61% in 2010. Democrats have driven some of the shift, but favorable opinions of capitalism have fallen among independents as well.
Sanders' rise as a national political figure over the past decade also brought criticism of capitalism into the mainstream. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. He fell short both times but built a devoted movement around his concept of democratic socialism, drawing crowds and engaging voters disaffected with politics with a message of class struggle between workers and elites. Mamdani and other young progressive Democrats, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn on his work.
Young adults generally — but particularly younger Democrats — are much less positive about capitalism than they were 15 years ago. Only 31% of Democrats under 50 have a positive view of capitalism, the new poll found, compared to 54% in 2010.
Other polling has found fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats about capitalism’s fairness.
A 2022 Pew Research Center survey found that only about 2 in 10 Democrats said “gives all people an equal chance to be successful” describes capitalism “extremely” or “very” well, and even fewer said that about “makes sure everyone’s basic needs, such as food, health care, and housing, are met.”
Around half of Republicans said that capitalism gives all people an opportunity to be successful, but fewer said it meets people’s basic needs.
More negative views of big business
Big business is also increasingly unpopular, according to the new poll. Only 37% of U.S. adults have a positive image of big business, down from 49% in 2010.
There’s a wide partisan split in views of big business – 17% of Democrats have a positive view, compared to 60% of Republicans – but Republicans’ assessments of big business have become more negative in the past few years.
The vast majority of U.S. adults continue to have a positive view of free enterprise, though, suggesting that many Americans continue to be happy with some elements of the country’s economic system.
Socialism grows more polarizing
While capitalism has gotten slightly less popular among Americans overall, views of socialism have remained stable. That’s because while Democrats have warmed somewhat to the idea, Republicans’ opinions of socialism – which were already negative – have curdled even more.
Now, the Gallup poll found that only 14% of Republicans have a positive view of socialism, compared to 66% of Democrats. Positive views of socialism have grown among older and younger Democrats, according to Gallup's polling.
These changing views present a conundrum for Democratic politicians, who are routinely accused of being “communists” or “socialists," but have historically tried to pivot away from those characterizations. Now, though, the label is increasingly appealing for their base, which could bolster efforts within the party to embrace the concept of socialism, rather than shying away from it.
The shift was apparent as Sanders and Mamdani held a joint town hall in New York City on Saturday as part of Mamdani's bid to lead the Democratic stronghold. As Mamdani was delivering his opening remarks, a man with a shirt that read Cuba and a Cuban flag approached the stage, yelling that Mamdani was a Communist. He was removed by security.
“You know that something has changed when it’s not enough to call us democratic socialists anymore,” Mamdani said.
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Associated Press writer Jonathan J. Cooper reported from Phoenix.
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