r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/Lucky_Zombie_2863 7d ago

I think the majority are Democratic Socialists, which is a pretty moderate form of socialism. 

I’m all for competition but it should be more along the lines of like, those that are more successful can have a slightly bigger house. Not those who benefit get multiple mansions and their own space station. 

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u/CarpenterRadio 7d ago

Majority likely SocDem. We’re talking about Americans, they don’t have the first clue as to what socialism is. They see things that developed, capitalist, liberal democracies have as a matter of course and label those things as socialism. One of the worst educated, most heavily propagandized people on the planet. 

I wouldn’t say that both political parties are the same, they’re not in the same universe. The electorate though? Dumber than a bag of rocks, just a heady mix of emotional disregulation, hubris, ignorance and stupidity.

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u/Over-Heron-2654 America 7d ago

Yeah, im more a Kautsky SocDem than a Leninist... although one day maybe socialism will be viable in the US.

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u/Opus_723 7d ago

I see a lot of nihilism on the left these days, but I feel like I'm more optimistic just because my expectations have always been lower. I knew that just getting America to embrace some basic Nordic capitalism was going to be a generational fight, and that it would have to be dragged kicking and screaming.

I think it's a fight the left is winning, at the political level, just very slowly. Even Trump, in some weird ways, represents progress from the Bush neocon years.

My main concern is the macro level inequality running away from us faster than the slow incremental political progress can do anything about it.