On Wednesday, Issues & Insights posted an article about how well the items in the Democratic Socialists Of America platform resonate (or don’t resonate) with Americans.

Here are some of the highlights from the article:

First, I&I/TIPP asked about DSA’s proposal for the “abolition of jails and prisons.”

Only 26% agreed either strongly (10%) or somewhat (16%) with this plan, while 62% disagreed strongly (47%) or somewhat (15%).

…Next up: “Defunding the Defense Department.” On this, overall 33% agreed either strongly (15%) or somewhat (18%), while a majority of 54% disagreed strongly (17%) or somewhat (37%).

…For a third question, voters were asked to agree or disagree with “amnesty for all illegal immigrants.”

This time, 34% agreed strongly (14%) or somewhat (19%), while a slim majority of 52% disagreed strongly (19%) or somewhat (33%).

…On the fourth question, respondents were asked about “getting rid of the U.S. president and U.S. Supreme Court to be replaced by a chief executive and high court selected by Congress, not the people.”

An overall 27% agreed either strongly (13%) or somewhat (14%) with this proposal, while a more than 2-to-1 majority of 57% disagreed either strongly (42%) or somewhat (14%).

…Finally, the fifth proposal of the DSA’s plan: “Government ownership of the largest corporations and important industries.”

Again, about a third — 33% — agree with the idea either strongly (13%) or somewhat (20%), while 52% disagree strongly (34%) or somewhat (18%).

If Americans actually read the platform, it doesn’t sound like the Democratic Socialists of America will get a lot of votes. The question is whether or not Americans read the platforms or just react to the personalities of the candidates.

The article notes:

Other polls find the same level of acceptance for socialism, which is what “control or own” clearly implies.

In a June survey, for instance, Economist/YouGov found that 34% of Democrats said socialism was a “better” economic system than capitalism, while only 22% said capitalism was better. Among all Americans, 44% preferred capitalism versus 19% choosing socialism. And overall, a third of all Americans said they’d vote for a socialist candidate.

Why is this?

One big reason could be age. In the I&I/TIPP Poll, 44% of respondents were in the 18-to-44 year age range. So even the oldest among this group would have only the vaguest of memories of the collapse of communism and the subsequent debunking of socialist ideas as economically workable.

Meanwhile, in recent decades formal public education has become saturated with leftist indoctrination, well documented in numerous studies, reports and first-hand accounts.

No surprise, then, that in the I&I/TIPP Poll, 46% of those 44 years and younger supported the takeover of major U.S. industries, while just 22% of those 45 years and older did. It’s a generational thing.

Inevitably, today’s students become tomorrow’s voters. This, perhaps as much as anything, explains the current positive feelings that many younger voters seem to harbor for socialist candidates and the ideas they espouse.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. Americans need to educate themselves on what socialism actually means and what the results of embracing it are.