{"id":689019,"date":"2026-10-19T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689019"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:24:12","slug":"socialism-sounds-great-until-liberal-voter-gets-one-question-she-hadnt-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689019","title":{"rendered":"Socialism sounds great \u2014 until liberal voter gets one question she hadn\u2019t considered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stunning admission showed that an uptick in favorability for socialism did not include an uptick in understanding of how it \u201cjust impoverishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n(Video Credit: Fox News Digital)<\/p>\n

Where once leftward shifts down the slippery slope came as little more than nudges, to use the language of the Obama administration\u2019s Cass Sunstein, today\u2019s Democratic Party has been taking leaps and bounds directly off the cliff to socialism. As recent polling showed an uptick in favorable views for the ideology, interviews with people in Portland, Maine, showed a disconnect on what happens to personal property.<\/p>\n

In a report for Fox News Digital, Paul Steinhauser shared how a Fox News national poll showed 32% of voters holding a favorable view of socialism compared to 64% unfavorable. Capitalism\u2019s split was 51%-46%.<\/p>\n

As one U.S. Navy veteran told the outlet, he believes socialism is good because it \u201clooks out for people\u2019s needs \u2026 and it\u2019s not communism.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed on how people would lose personal property to a controlling entity, the man admitted, \u201cI guess, I hadn\u2019t really thought about socialism that way. I think about taking care of the needs of people, you know, things like national health care, things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like government taking things away from you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The retired service member wasn\u2019t alone in stumbling over the realities of the radical ideology as an individual who recently moved to Portland resorted to talking points in promoting wealth redistribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of wealth imbalance in America right now, and we could benefit from some sort of leveling system,\u201d he said before insisting socialism helps \u201cpeople who aren\u2019t as, you know, benefiting in society.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, he attempted to delineate between small businesses and big corporations, telling Fox News Digital, \u201cBut there are a lot of really high-end corporations that benefit so much, that really don\u2019t need that much wealth. There\u2019s so much exorbitant wealth at the top end that a lot of that could trickle down to people who are disadvantaged and don\u2019t have homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the Fox News poll, a Gallup poll conducted in September showed favor for capitalism was on the decline \u2014 dropping five points while unfavorable opinions climbed eight \u2014 and socialism reached a new high with an inverse in movement that put favorable views at 43% to 53% unfavorable.<\/p>\n

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GALLUP POLL: Favorability Ratings<\/p>\n

Capitalism
\n\"\ud83d\udfe2\" Favorable: 55% (-5)
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" Unfavorable: 43% (+8)<\/p>\n

Socialism
\n\"\ud83d\udfe2\" Favorable: 43% (+8) \u2013 new high
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" Unfavorable: 53% (-5)
\n\u2014\u2014
\nSocialism net favs<\/p>\n

Age
\n\"\ud83d\udfe2\" 18\u201334: +17
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" 35\u201354: \u22128
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" 55+: \u221229
\n\u2014
\nParty ID
\n\"\ud83d\udfe2\" Dem: +33
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" GOP: \u221271
\n\"\ud83d\udfe1\" Indie: \u22125
\n\u2014
\nRace
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" White: \u221220
\n\"\ud83d\udfe2\" Non-white: +5
\n\u2014
\nHousehold Income
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" Under $50k: \u22123
\n\"\u26aa\" $50k\u2013$100k: even
\n\"\ud83d\udfe4\" $100k+: \u221218<\/p>\n

(+\/- shift vs 2016) | 8\/3-24 | 1,200 A
\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/n5MwZme3Az<\/p>\n

\u2014 InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if businesses were taken over, the daughter of a small business owner remained completely in favor of socialism, contending,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve seen how tough it is to run a small business in this country and how easy it is for corporations to just do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if we gave actually back to small businesses and the government helped them out \u2026 and so much of the market that\u2019s privatized actually became public, I think with how big the U.S. has gotten, it\u2019s only a good thing,\u201d she went on.<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a>, amid the myriad wins for Democratic Socialists of America candidates across the country, Fox News host Will Cain concluded, \u201csome young folks on the right are considering socialism as a shortcut to the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as the indoctrination of the university system was coupled with an upended economic system that, under leftist leaders, sought to pick winners and losers through diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, Ted, a man with perspective, spoke to the track record of the \u201chorrible idea\u201d that is socialism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can learn from history, anything from history, we see that it\u2019s gonna really give way too much power to the government institution. It\u2019s gonna \u2026 make things that are harmful overall for everyone \u2026 it\u2019s like it\u2019s dictatorship,\u201d he told Fox News Digital. \u201c\u2026 socialism just impoverishes. Capitalism, the free market economy, is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stunning admission showed that an uptick in favorability for socialism did not include an uptick in understanding of how it \u201cjust impoverishes.\u201d (Video Credit: Fox News Digital) Where once leftward shifts down the slippery slope came as little more than nudges, to use the language of the Obama administration\u2019s Cass Sunstein, today\u2019s Democratic Party has… Continue reading Socialism sounds great \u2014 until liberal voter gets one question she hadn\u2019t considered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}