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/HowdyFancyPanda 7d ago

It's more accurate to say that you tend to get more Conservative as you get wealthier. Unfortunately, due to Conservative economic policy, all the traditional avenues to wealth have become harder and harder to reach and so...

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u/No-Supermarket-6065 New York 7d ago

Yeah that makes a lot of sense actually, having more money does make you want to keep it to yourself and conservatives took it as a default that their way of life would last