MB Civic

Gallagher ..

Twenty-nine percent of the nation has “a positive reaction to the word “socialism” (with 59% in the negative) — according to the Pew Research Center’s latest findings. Democrats are actually 44% to 43% in the positive column, while the President’s other perceived base, the under-30’s, were only 49% to 43% negative. (Their view of “capitalism” was also negative, by the way — 48% to 43%.) This latest news was actually not as good a showing for “socialism” as January’s Gallup Poll where 36% were positive toward the idea, including 53% of Democrats and 61% of those identifying as “liberals” … How can this be? we might ask, given that you just about never encounter any positive treatment of “socialism” in the mass media and virtually everyone in the public sphere has been running away from the word for — well, for maybe sixty years now

encouraging signs that people are turning away from corporate mass media and seeking other outlets – look for pushback as big cable/telecom companies try to take control of/police the Internet and rid the web of blasphemers like David Ray Griffin – mab .. read more