Poll: Americans Like Free Markets More than Capitalism and Socialism More Than a Govt Managed Economy
From the Article:
"A recent Reason-Rupe poll asked Americans to rate their favorability towards capitalism, socialism, a free market economy, and a government managed economy. Americans have the most favorable reaction to free markets (69%), followed by capitalism (55%), socialism (36%), and coming in last was a government managed economy (30%).
Fully 66 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of an economy managed by the government while 58 percent have a negative view of socialism. Only 21 percent reported a negative opinion of free markets but nearly double that, 38 percent, have a negative view of capitalism."
Now for the good part. The Pollsters determined that the Americans that liked socialism didn't know the meaning of the word. They thought it meant Government goodies to the impoverished. Education works so well.
"A recent Reason-Rupe poll asked Americans to rate their favorability towards capitalism, socialism, a free market economy, and a government managed economy. Americans have the most favorable reaction to free markets (69%), followed by capitalism (55%), socialism (36%), and coming in last was a government managed economy (30%).
Fully 66 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of an economy managed by the government while 58 percent have a negative view of socialism. Only 21 percent reported a negative opinion of free markets but nearly double that, 38 percent, have a negative view of capitalism."
Now for the good part. The Pollsters determined that the Americans that liked socialism didn't know the meaning of the word. They thought it meant Government goodies to the impoverished. Education works so well.
More evidence our state run indoctrination .. er um education system is corrupting young people. Along with the politicians and their media stooges almost the entire population is being purposely "dumbed' down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B...
Regards,
O.A.
I tend to think most individuals who are capable of critical thought are conservative whether they realize it or not.
Proof that higher education is only as effective as the chosen curriculum. Feed your horses sawdust and they will eventually die of starvation. It's going to take mass starvation to overcome the propaganda.
Anyone in college remember Soviet USSR's magnificent success? That is the result of socialism, you ignorant, progressive, politically correct fools.
Which way to Atlantis?
Capitalism = government keeps its hands off completely, and that means no special favors to anyone, big or small.
Communism: the government owns it all.
Socialism = everything in-between. That includes the quasi-socialism in which some players--big companies or big "populist" lobbies--buy special favors. The Nomenklatura (that's Russian for the Aristocracy of Pull) are still the Nomenklatura, whether Jim Taggart/Orren Boyle or Fred Kinnan dominates its membership.
people; apparently, they don't understand, or know
how to read, their own language. They seem to
think that there is a difference between "free mark-
et" and "capitalism". Ayn Rand said, "If it is not
laissez-faire capitalism, it is not capitalism."
(1) "Helping" the less fortunate through subsidies and tax breaks extracted from all, eg subsidised doctor visits
(2) "Helping" the most fortunate through subsidies and tax breaks extracted from all, eg subsidies for corporate expansion programmes.
These can exist separately or in combination.
There is much debate too on how "free" a market can effectively become if left to itself - the idea of "market failure" - loved by micro-economists - of how monopolies/oligopolies can inflict levels of market inefficiency rivalling or exceeding that of many governments, due to their monopoly rents functioning similarly to a form of taxation, distorting the supply-demand curves. Austrian School adherents on the other hand argue vigorously that there is no such thing as market failure, and that any state a market is in, is ipso facto its most efficient.
I would guess that 'stupid' in place of ignorance in your comment would be more to the point. It's my thought that human evolution has actually been slowed down due to the ability of the stupid to survive and reproduce. Further that a great deal of the isms of history have been the result of the stupid in our species including the altruisms imposed in order to take care of the stupid.
Some would argue that those thoughts edge into the realm of eugenics, but it is never-the-less, true.
"Free market" must sound a bit better that "capitalism" to a kid who has been taught about robber barons and all those mean ole' corporations.
But how about the numbers preferring Free Market and Capitalism? I think that's some positive change.
What was the percentage on those who could define capitalism or for that matter root words like money, wealth, less than 5%?
Capitalism IS the free market.
Socialism IS a government managed economy...
didn't know it -- apparently. . good education. -- j
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And 'free market' in Objectivist philosophy is 'laissez faire', or let it be.
I think the confusion of the language by socialist with the intent of affecting the way citizens think about those subject issues is the greatest danger to our society.