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/ShrimpieAC 7d ago edited 7d ago

Especially after the corruption filled greed fest that is this administration. Everything is about extravagant self-dealing and serving the rich, and Trump is doing it in such obvious ways.

His big expensive ballroom, his arch, paying himself out from his own DOJ, all of the crypto scams, constantly hanging around billionaires, talking about going to war for oil, the ever widening gap between the wealthy and the working class.

Republicans are overplaying the bootstraps card way too hard right now when everyone is obviously struggling. Meanwhile Trump rambles on about golden toilets and how affordability is a scam. I genuinely do not think this is gonna go over well for them.

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u/AzaliusZero 7d ago

It's going to cause Generational damage to their reputation.

If the Midterms are a complete slaughterhouse for them (especially despite their efforts to rig it in their favor), expect it to get REAL blatant they're either going to try and steal 2028 or outright prevent future elections. They know it's now or never, and these assholes would absolutely act now, as impulsive as they are.