DR. DUKE PESTA: AMERICANS UNDER THIRTY
PREFER SOCIALISM
New data is now showing a big shift in American attitudes toward
socialism. A survey of U.S. adults conducted by the American Culture and
Faith institute suggests that 40 percent of Americans prefer socialism
to capitalism and free markets. A Gallup poll (2016) also found that 55
percent of Americans younger than age 30 hold favorable views of
socialism. It makes perfect sense that younger generations—who have not
experienced full throttle socialism first hand, and who have yet to have
a house or own a business—are taken in by the utopian fantasies of
government school teachers and leftist academics.