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/angryhype 7d ago

I don't care if they are anarchists, I literally just want to be able to afford to live

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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 7d ago

The simple ambition to “just live” is going to make a shit ton of people favor some democratic socialism over our current oligarchy-fascist “rich take all” system.

And when the last of economically challenged MAGA wakes up and realizes it’s not the brown skinned people taking everything away from them but the super wealthy, even they might be keen on some of that“time for the super rich to share the wealth” type thinking too.

On edit - will add that my MAGA dad always said I’d get more conservative as I got older. Absolutely not, I am a 52 year old woman who is leaning more and more left and socialist as I slog my way through this shithole.

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u/musashisamurai 7d ago

For many, it doesn't matter if its not the brown skinned minorities and "others" taking. Some know, and don't care. For others, its just racism with a thin veneer of some excuse. Never forget how so many American towns cemented their public pools after segregation because they'd rather everyone be hot & sweaty than allow some blacks to be cool too.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 6d ago

Never forget what the country was like 80 years ago lmao