Are you sitting down? "More young Democrats prefer Socialism to Capitalism". So saith some. True or un?

I think most young people prefer "socialism".
After all, most parents teach their children that sharing is a good thing.  And that's basically the heart of socialism.

As people grow older, we learn the "John Galt lesson".  IE: People tend to put in as little effort as possible to get a reward.
And some people actually work to figure out ways to get others to pay their expenses, rather than working to pay their expenses themselves.

So there has to be a balance between the two.
Pure socialism/communism has never worked.  Neither has pure capitalism.

According to some surveys, it seems to be true. However, one needs to ask the question as to why they prefer socialism. One survey asked respondents to use their own words to describe socialism and found millennials who viewed it favorably were more likely to think of it as just people being kind or “being together,” as one millennial put it. Others thought of socialism as just a more generous social safety net where “the government pays for our own needs”. If socialism is framed the way Bernie Sanders does, as just being a generous social safety net, it’s much harder to undermine among millennials. This narrative says the government is a benevolent caretaker and pays for everybody’s needs (from everybody’s pockets).

  However, young people do not like the true definition of socialism—the idea of government running businesses. If socialism is framed as government running Uber, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, etc., it doesn't go over all that well. The margin of support for capitalism over socialism is only +10 points (52% to 42%), but the margin for a free-market system over a government-managed economy is +32 points (64% to 32%). Referring back to why the young prefer socialism question. The main answer is that they don't really know what it is and aren't really aware of the disastrous outcome associated with it.

Political terminology has changed over time, and there are several variations on the following theme, but each of these sayings is applicable:

Not to be a républicain(sic) at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

If you’re not a socialist before you’re twenty-five, you have no heart; if you are a socialist after twenty-five, you have no head.

If you aren’t a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart, but if you aren’t a middle-aged conservative, you have no head.

This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at February 27, 2020 7:48 AM MST