Socialism Poll

[BoulderDawg]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/So...Americans.aspx

PRINCETON, NJ -- More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism," while 58% have a negative image. Views differ by party and ideology, with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.

Hmmmm.....I find that interesting. Considering the negativity the teabaggers seem to espouse towards socialism. Over 1 out of very 3 Americans consider it "Positive".

However I found it interesting that 1 out of 5 people who consider themselves conservative have a positive view of socialism...Dam!

I wish the poll had of went further. I wish they had included fascism in there. The liberal response would have been around zero while the conservative number would have been extremely high.

I wonder if they have ever done this poll in a politically enlightened country like France. The positive response would have been 90+%!

[dimethylsea]

I wonder if they have ever done this poll in a politically enlightened country like France. The positive response would have been 90+%!

What's sad is the French basically run their whole country on nuclear power and have little fossil fuel dependancy compared to us... while the country that INVENTED workable nukes is supporting terrorists with our petroleum addiction.

[Drake]

It's even funnier that you keep referring to them as teabaggers. Seeing as they are gaining more and more influence, it is clear that with them being teabaggers, that would make you the teabaggee, thus meaning that while you were dismally unaware of your surroundings, they've dangled their unmentionables in your face.

So, why you call them teabaggers, thinking you've insulted them and not yourself, is beyond me. Moron.

[David Jamieson]

What's sad is the French basically run their whole country on nuclear power and have little fossil fuel dependancy compared to us... while the country that INVENTED workable nukes is supporting terrorists with our petroleum addiction.

actually...ahem...the US (with the aid of the Brits and the Canadian spy king Sir William Stephenson) took German technology and created a weapon.

The first nuclear reactor to go online and produce electricity was Russian and the first full scale reactor to go into use is in England. Fermi and Szilard actually built on in 42, but it was not a production model.

so... just sayin...lol

It's actually an interesting question in regards to this tech, because even today, there is not a lot of available information on what they are or how they work and certainly not much of what is there is understandable by the great and vast majority of us.

[David Jamieson]

as an aside, all political models have something useful in them.

I think there should be some effort to create an integrated political model which takes workable and good aspects form all political models and instralls them into the democratic model.

some aspects can be social, others can be totally for profit, others still can be even in a collective model...

the more ideas that can be glued together, the better as far as I'm concerned.

Capitalism and and unregulated free market doesn't work as much as people would like it to. There's just too many greedy asses in the world to spoil that model as we've recently seen with the total global economic collapse thanks to wall street and that very model of thinking and doing.