Astonishing

2016 was the first year since Gallup started tracking the question that it found Democrats had a more positive view of socialism than they did of capitalism. https://t.co/QNGfF94FId pic.twitter.com/h69TEAKaog

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) January 23, 2019

The underlying article is from The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto by Clare Malone.

I had always imagined that Democrats would look more like the Republicans but with a narrower gap. Republicans reject socialism by margins of 50%. I would have guessed that with Democrats it might have been more like 30%. What this survey suggests is that for Democrats there is not much difference between capitalism and socialism.

That's astonishing. Particularly for someone who has lived in socialist countries and next to communist ones.

The problem is that Gallup only began asking this question in 2010. The Democrats subversion by postmodernist critical theory became notable in the late 1990s. I suspect if this question were asked of Democrats in 1980, the results would look a lot more similar to those of Republicans today.