The latest ForbesUnder30 Voter Survey, powered by Zogby, shows the far left appeal the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, has on young Democrats by RandallLane
—despite renewed attention on his perplexing affinity for 1980s communist regimes, Soviet infrastructure and a term that helped repress and impoverish tens of millions of people during the Cold War.
Yup, three in five young American voters would either prefer a mainly socialist economic system for America—or aren’t sure. First, note that even in the party of Reagan, the traditional home of free market sacrosanctity, more than a quarter of under-30 voters are inclined to like socialism. And among Democrats under 30, our survey found that socialism favorability is now the . So let his primary competitors tar him as a socialist, or at least warn of that label’s toxicity among the general electorate—to the Bernie base, it’s a compliment.
But to Under 30 voters, what does it even mean to be socialist? Given that no one under 30 was alive for the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War s-word has no personal resonance.
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