Why Do Many Americans Have a Positive View of Socialism?
Socialism is popular!
A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively.
How is this possible?
Little has brought more misery—first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela.
One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but economically illiterate people.
TikTok star Madeline Pendleton has 1.6 million subscribers. My new video shows her telling them: “Socialism is working better than capitalism 93 percent of the time!”
Where does she get 93 percent?
From a study published in 1986 by self-described Marxists in the Journal of Health Services.
The authors conveniently ignore the United States and other wealthy countries and compare socialist economies to “capitalist” countries like Uganda, Rwanda, and Somalia, some of which were at war.
It’s so stupid. But based on that, Pendleton tells her followers, “We have all the data showing that socialism does work.”
She also celebrates communism because of its “increased life expectancy.”
That’s nonsense, too. People live longest in capitalist countries like Japan (85 years) and South Korea (84 years). Even in the United States (79 years), where more of us die young because we drive more (car accidents), eat more, shoot each other more often, and try more danger
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