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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Surge Reflects US Shift on Socialism
Unexpected surge
Does Sanders' newfound mainstream popularity suggest Americans are changing their views on socialism?
For many younger Americans, that appears to be the case, according to University of Massachusetts, Amherst economics professor Richard Wolff, who says the socialist label is not nearly as scary as it once was.
"For people 30 years of age and younger, saying, 'Bernie Sanders is a socialist' cuts exactly no ice," _is not an effective smear tactic_ Wolff told VOA. "It's useless. It doesn't persuade anyone."
A Gallup poll conducted earlier this year lends weight to that view...
Young Americans more open to socialism
More: http://www.voanews.com/content/bernie-sanders-surge-reflects-us-shift-on-socialism-/2946935.html
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Waking up one morning and realizing the bottle isn't working.
The younger crowd wasn't indoctrinated the way the boomers and older were. I mean looking back at some of the so-called department of defense "educational" films is absolutely shocking. That war forced everyone into a lockstep pattern of submission. Younger folks are thinking outside the military box.
I want to say it can only get better. But there are still a lot of ignorant, unconscious people in this country.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Democratic Socialist.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)It's just that "detail" which caused both socialist and communist efforts to fail.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Jesus) the game was over: they'd defeated themselves by being allowed to call everyone a Red
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)Young people, old people, and everyone in between know who is screwing them over, and Bernie is the only one they see pointing this out.