Friday, February 12, 2010

This is Freaking Crazy

From Gallup:

Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans
Majority of Americans positive on capitalism, entrepreneurs, free enterprise, and small business
by Frank Newport

More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism," while 58% have a negative image. Views differ by party and ideology, with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.
Comrade Khruschev must be laughing his ass off in hell.

2 comments:

Reaganx said...

It would be interesting to see similar polls taken several decades ago. Was socialism more popular/less popular/as popular?

Anonymous said...

A decade ago would probably be similar. Two decades ago, I would imagine the number of Americans with a favorable view of socialism in the survey would be significantly fewer, perhaps half as many.