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Many of the best things in America are Socialist: Public schools, libraries, museums, fire departments, municipal parks/playground, state parks, national parks, highways, bridges, monuments, etc.

Many people are far more afraid of the WORD Socialist, than actual Socialist concepts. Socialism and Communism have become far too closely associated, to the point of being synonyms, and the Dems have to change that perception.

That's just one key part of their messaging game that they have take control of. The Conservative Propaganda Machine does a great job of not only controlling their own messaging, but the Dems have always allowed them to define Democratic concepts as well. It's long past time when the Dems flip the tables, and take control of their own messaging, and start defining MAGA as treasonous, corrupt, racist, and pedophilic, and depraved.

No. Support is ~30%. Last time I checked, that's not a majority.

~47% (almost half) view them unfavorably. Another ~23% are unsure.

They love to use that specific picture of him too. They probably think it makes him look angry and middle eastern. It caught his eyebrows at the perfect angry-looking angle.

Too bad for them he's charismatic as fuck everywhere else. And, you know, does stuff to help people.

Currently socialism to these guys = Not having a corrupt government ran by special interest.

This is what they are afraid of. Not socialism coming to town but a government that actually works. The corrupt media is pushing bullshit to benefit the wealthy class so the people don't come for their golden goose.

That's propaganda for you.

And most of that minority are going to end up liking the results of his actions as time goes on.

Hey boss, this poll says 60% of people support democratic socialists. How are we gonna reword this?

Boss: just flip the stat and make the sentence negative

They recognize the wave of wave of ~~democratic socialism~~ social democrats and fight it tooth and nail.

We do not have a free press.

Yoo hoo. Billionaires. We're coming for you...

Democratic Socialism is where citizens of democracies pay taxes to support their fire departments, military, health care systems etc. They still believe in free markets and your life improving if you work hard/go to school etc. It’s only corrupt politicians and the ignorant that equate social programs with Communism. Americans have been gaslighted by the financial elite to view social programs as a hand out, because the elite receive no profit from them.

The DSA is a big tent within a big tent. The Democratic Party is essentially the opposition party to MAGA. If you're against Trump then the Democratic Party is the only option you have.

That said, some of its platform ideas like universal healthcare and restoring consumer protections (so we control for things like crypto scams and surveillance pricing) are pretty popular. Abortion access enjoys a popularity of about 60%.

I don't know the number of people who want a higher minimum wage, but it's above majority, especially since the affordability crisis, and doubly so now that SNAP and Medicaid have been slashed.

Republican scaremongers call anything they don't like communism or jihad because they only deal in blood libel and buzzwords. See They're eating the dogs.

Also, evidently, bike lanes are woke and DEI.

Centrist Democrat scaremongers like to bring up the more left-leaning (actually left-leaning) platform issues like abolish the prisons and abolish the police.

These are serious issues, but even the DSA doesn't pretend it will be easy to sell that to the general public. Before ICE we knew that police have become a nationwide problem, and the presence of law enforcement is more likely to turn a non-violent situation violent than it is de-escalate it. The John Oliver segment on Killology sheds light on the issue. Right now, that's just been buried by the actions of ICE.

And we know that state and federal prisons have been squalid and inhumane for a long time, not improved at all since the rise of the prison industrial complex during the Reagan administration. Private prisons are even worse, and we're now seeing the extreme version of that in immigrant detention centers by GEO Group and Core Civic.

But again, these are extreme issues and the Republicans are more likely to end birthright citizenship and women's suffrage sooner than DSAs are going to make inroads in abolishing prisons and law enforcement.

I remember when the media was castigating the 10% or whatever of Bernie voters who said that they would vote for Trump if Bernie didn't get nominated.

The framing was "There at X number of Bernie bros who are disloyal and will punish the Democrats by voting Trump" instead of "Bernie would take X number of voters from Trump". Same story, but completely different spin.

Btw most of that "unsupporters" are just indifferent, not even against.

We should all be going To our City meetings Pointing at New York and saying there is the proof you can get things done if you want to. Get things done or you’re gone.

!twnw@fedia.io

Tax these ultra-wealthy fuck so that they have to sell their bought up loudspeakers and give them back to the people.

ignoring it will not work, it will only make the tide rise against them while their heads are in the sand.

mostly boomers, and older people answer polls anyways. they likely ask for political affiliation as a gauge.

Devils advocate: their wording is shit, but the quote retweet is also wrong

These polls are usually

Do you support thing?

• Yes
• No
• Don't Know/Don't Care

So it's also not necessarily majority support, there could be a sizeable amount of option C

To be fair, news media have been dicks before. In the cold war, we were so afraid of USSR that it was difficult to find news critical of the US and its government policies. We have the longstanding existence of an ideological enemy to blame for the push of our Overton window to the right. (Also a propaganda effort by the owner class to do that.)

I was taught about news literacy in the late 1980s in college Logic and Critical Thinking. It became useful in the aughts, when George W. Bush was trying to push going into Iraq after we were sore about the 9/11 attacks, and then later when they wanted to suppress the torture and PMCs and war crimes.

At the time we relied on foreign media, and turned to multiple sources to get the facts straight. In the Trump era, there's a lot of independent media, sometimes getting raided by FBI or ICE.

When a news source injects a bit of spin in its stories, that's the management of the news agency telling you who they are.

ETA: Musk buying up Twitter and Bezos directly intervening in the management of WaPo should serve as warnings that the owner class is actively trying to suppress free and fair journalism. We also used to have a lot more investigative stories than we do now.

Share links to stories that tell the truth.

Found the article

Where is the poll? I can't find it

Richer people want things to stay as they are. Poorer people want things to change.

It's the same everywhere all the time: democracies, dictatorships, communism, fascism, monarchies, etc.

These companies will become less relevant as time goes on because people see the game.