Polls suggest that progressive policies such as the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all are actually in line with what the majority of American citizens want their elected lawmakers to support.
Republican Representative Liz Cheney has accused Democrats of trying to steal power from American citizens and enslave the country with socialism.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar attend a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 7 SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
When it comes to a proposed Green New Deal, a poll released by INSIDER in February showed that more than 80 percent of respondents supported most of the plan’s agenda. The proposal, which was put forward by Ocasio-Cortez in the House of Representatives, calls for major changes across the U.S. economy to address the threat of climate change while also creating jobs and improving infrastructure.
Republicans have blasted these and other progressive policy ideas as socialism, writing them off as radical and extreme. But as the polls suggest, the proposals are actually in line with what a large number of American citizens want their elected lawmakers to support. A survey by Gallup released in 2018 showed that a majority – 57 percent – of Democrats and voters who lean Democrat have a positive view of socialism. Conversely, only 47 percent said they had a positive view of capitalism.
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