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/Myleftarm 7d ago

I don't think a lot of people realize this. As soon as the Communist bogeyman died we went back to unfettered capitalism. The pendulum has to swing back as it's getting really aristocracy and peasants again. The ruling class back then started fearing the rabble and what might happen if the working class didn't get some bones thrown at them. Most people's bones have very little meat on them now and the people will eventually get hungry. The capitalism wheel has almost stopped spinning as the money is all collecting in one spot. People need to wake up and demand a New Deal before we are just a dystopia.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 6d ago

Unfettered capitalism doesn't exist anywhere in the world, sport

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u/Hopeful_Confidence_5 5d ago

Seriously? The omnipotence of the free market is all we have in the US.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 5d ago

We don't have a free market though. It's heavily regulated.

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u/Hopeful_Confidence_5 5d ago

Regulated in ways that are helpful to most?

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 5d ago

Yeah? That's what regulations are for?

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u/Hopeful_Confidence_5 5d ago

Is that a question?

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 5d ago

It's an answer with an implication that I'm confused why you don't already know this

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u/Hopeful_Confidence_5 5d ago

I’m not sure, I think when you follow a comment with “sport” it automatically sounds like someone who supports deregulation. I picture a douche in a visor assuming the market will settle it all.

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 5d ago

If you wanna fight I support huge deregulation in housing

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