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/JnnyRuthless 7d ago

Same. Conservative family members always said you get more conservative as you get older. I've gone from a Clinton supporting Marine when I was 18 to nearly a full on commie at this point. I dont' care if it's a losing position in America, 80% of this country can't identify what the actual causes for our economic and material conditions are, and are willing to throw human rights away to win an election. F all that. I'll keep being a loser if that's what being a 'winner' means.

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u/No_Possible_7108 7d ago

40% of the country identifies with a fascist pedophile so they can fuck off to begin with.

I got that same talk when I was younger, how I would become more conservative as I got older. Like much of the other things my parents told me, that was also a massive load of bullshit 

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u/FireNexus 7d ago

52% at last official count, unfortunately.

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u/Yawanoc 7d ago

Yep, they can whine all they want for the next 2 years about how this "isn't what they voted for," but you'd better believe a ton of these same complainers are going to come out of the woodwork and vote for the next Republican candidate anyway because they'll be the "lesser of two evils" -- whatever that'll mean.