{"id":11384,"date":"2018-09-04T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2018-09-04T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:32:46","slug":"americans-wont-vote-for-socialism-once-they-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/americans-wont-vote-for-socialism-once-they-know-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans won&#8217;t vote for socialism once they know what it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a piece by one of my colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Roderick Gregory \/\/ The Hill<\/p>\n<p>A series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/240725\/democrats-positive-socialism-capitalism.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polls<\/a>\u00a0have shown that pluralities of Democrats and millennials prefer socialism to capitalism. These surveys also make clear that respondents do not know what socialism is.<\/p>\n<p>Also Sen.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bernie-sanders\" data-nid=\"188217\">Bernie Sanders<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(I-Vt.) has shown that Democratic primary voters will cast their ballots for an avowed socialist if he packages his brand properly.<\/p>\n<p>Socialism\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536154509867000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHAV44jlDObtGkpNFMuuebElh_3g\">new face<\/a>, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, upset a major establishment figure in the New York primaries. Like the poll respondents, she was also hard pressed to explain what socialism is. In another development, the primary upset victory of Andrew Gillam gave Florida democrats their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/what-arizona-and-florida-primary-winners-mean-for-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/what-arizona-and-florida-primary-winners-mean-for-november&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536154509867000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE7TxIhipTRH0ouEgbIhNOda_weZw\">first socialist candidate<\/a>\u00a0for governor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/404539-americans-wont-vote-for-socialism-once-they-know-what-it-is\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a piece by one of my colleagues. Paul Roderick Gregory \/\/ The Hill A series of\u00a0polls\u00a0have shown that pluralities of Democrats and millennials prefer socialism to capitalism. These surveys also make clear that respondents do not know what socialism is. Also Sen.\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0(I-Vt.) has shown that Democratic primary voters will cast their ballots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1197,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2XC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8236,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-administrations-adolescent-rants-about-isis\/","url_meta":{"origin":11384,"position":0},"title":"The Administration\u2019s Adolescent Rants about ISIS","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0\/\/ NRO- The Corner It is disheartening to listen to Obama and his administration voices childishly reiterating that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam because it does not represent the majority of Muslims or what Westerners perceive as normative values distilled from the Koran. 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Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist\u00a0chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and\u00a0Venezuelaare unfree, poor and failed states. Baathism\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11648,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-pulling-a-bait-and-switch-with-medicare-for-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":11384,"position":2},"title":"Progressives pulling a bait-and-switch with &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217;","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Politicians are known to misrepresent themselves to get elected, but Sen.\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0(I-Vt.) is supposed to be an exception. It is said that he has remained true to his socialist convictions through thick and thin. Surely, such a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bernie Sanders&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bernie Sanders","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/bernie-sanders\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9649,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9649-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11384,"position":3},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Hello\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Hello Mr Hanson. I read your articles on Townhall.com and have a question on something you wrote in Enemies Of Language. In your article you refer to Nazi Germany as having been \u201cright wing.\u201d This is a question that I have been wanting to pose so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3068,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/dsks-technocratic-socialism\/","url_meta":{"origin":11384,"position":4},"title":"DSK&#8217;s Technocratic Socialism","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0 The Corner The bizarre story of socialist IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was almost storybook: The socialist guardian, now facing sordid sexual-battery charges, we are told, was slumming in a $3,000 per night hotel, with an understanding that he can show up at any time at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Public Figures&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Public Figures","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/public-figures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12644,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-medusa\/","url_meta":{"origin":11384,"position":5},"title":"The Progressive Medusa","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There was once a tradition of Democratic liberalism. 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