Ep. 27 - Why Young Americans Are Turning to Socialism | Everyone Knows

46% of Americans under 35 view democratic socialism favorably. Ask their newest member of Congress to name a country where it worked and she names two capitalist ones.

Why Young Americans Are Voting Socialist | Everyone Knows Ep. 27

Everyone Knows | Episode 27 | Starborne Studios

A year ago the Democratic Socialists of America had two members of Congress. They are on track for five. New York City has a socialist mayor at 58% approval who then went three for three as a kingmaker in Democratic primaries, taking out a five term incumbent. Gallup has favorable views of capitalism at the lowest number it has ever recorded. Brian Bullock goes through what the polling says, what these voters actually mean by the word, and the thing underneath it that nobody in Washington will say out loud.

Three parts. All of them matter.

FIRST, the numbers and the wins. 46% of under 35s favorable to democratic socialism. 62% of 18 to 29 year olds favorable to socialism, and 34% favorable to communism. Capitalism at 54% nationally, the lowest Gallup has ever measured. Brian's read is that most outlets have it backwards. Socialism is not surging. It has sat in the high thirties for over a decade. Capitalism is what fell out from under. Nobody converted. People quit. Then he counts the seats. Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Denver, and now a governor's race in Wisconsin, all off one playbook.

SECOND, what these voters actually mean by the word. Ask the same young Americans about free enterprise instead and 83% view it positively. Same people, different word, a forty point swing. Asked to name something good about socialism, their most common answer was nothing. Nobody volunteered state ownership. Nobody said central planning. They are picturing Scandinavia. So Brian looks at Scandinavia, where the Prime Minister of Denmark flew to Harvard to tell Americans his country is a market economy, and where there is no minimum wage law. Then he goes to the country that did the real thing, and what it cost the people there.

THIRD, the question all the shouting skips. Not whether these voters are right, but why the number moved now, after sitting flat for a decade. The answer is not in any poll about ideology. It is in two ordinary pieces of paper that nearly every American under 35 already has, and once Brian sets those numbers side by side, the voting stops looking like a belief and starts looking like arithmetic. It is also where he quits talking about the left and says the hardest thing he has said on this show about his own side.

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