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Thursday, September 24, 2026

More than 40% of Americans have a positive image of socialism, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday said. The concept now ranks ahead of big business in opinions of the five economic concepts measured by Gallup.

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... This marks the first time a positive view of socialism has exceeded 39% in Gallup's trend since 2010. Gallup has measured trends about public views of the economic concepts periodically since 2010.

In general, U.S. residents have become less positive about most of the concepts, Gallup said.

Views of small business have remained nearly unchanged since 2010 at 95% positive.

However, positive views of capitalism have fallen by six percentage points to 55%, views of free enterprise have fallen by nine percentage points to 77% and views of big business have fallen by 14 percentage points to 35%.

"Most of the increase in socialism's positive rating through 2025 reflected increasingly positive views among Democrats, rising from 50% in 2010 to 66% last year," Gallup said.

"The latest uptick, however, comes entirely from political independents, whose positive rating jumped from 37% last year to 45% today.

Democrats' rating is essentially unchanged, at 65%, while Republicans' remains below 15%." ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-24 01:50 PM | Reply

And 90% of the remainder can't understand the concept, so, they equate it with communism, which they also don't understand.

#2 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-09-24 02:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#2

Sounds about right.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-24 02:23 PM | Reply

Capitalism is so great America is $40 trillion in debt.

The average American is about $63,500 in debt.

People have to choose between eating, paying bills and getting medical care.

We have 989 billionaires who do nothing but steal from their employees, hoard their wealth in off shore bank accounts and give nothing back to the country that made their lives possible.

The average wait time to see a doctor is 31 days.

Its average debt students leave college with is between $50,000 to $180,000.

Capitalism is fantastic for the very few and slavery for the rest.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-24 02:34 PM | Reply

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