Democratic Socialists Are Courting the Youth

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Democratic Socialists Are Courting the Youth

How do we stop them?

Carole Hornsby Haynes | July 22, 2026

In recent years, America’s positive views about capitalism have declined, and its positive views about socialism have increased.  The shift is especially pronounced among younger voters.  A 2021 Gallup poll found that just 47 percent of American youth, aged 18 to 34, favored capitalism, down nearly 20 points from 10 years earlier.  By 2025, support had plunged still more, with only 39 percent favoring capitalism, according to the Harvard Youth Poll.

The shift helps explain the rise in support by Gen Z and Millennial voters for political candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  New York City’s Gen Z and Millennial voters turned out en masse to elect DSA candidates.

DSA advocates for government control over almost every aspect of the economy, which brings loss of personal freedom.  Why would young voters reject free market capitalism when it is responsible for much of America’s standing as the world’s largest economy and the most innovations over the past century.  Why would young adults reject free market capitalism, which has brought economic freedom and lifted more than one billion people out of poverty worldwide?

A survey by Newsweek showed clearly that Gen Z and Millennials do not understand free market capitalism and socialism.

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[The_Reader_David]

We need to give the free-market response to income inequality, which can be found in Hayek's magestrial critique of socialism, The Road to Serfdom:  a universal basic income. 

It is the only sound income redistribution strategy because it is the only one which does not distort the bottom end of the labor market by creating what is effectively a confisactory tax on earning from work in the form of loss of benefits. 

Hayek was also happy with a state role in health insurance -- advocating the universal provision of what we now call "catastrophic health coverage", not pre-paid health-care like the Left wants, but insurance that kicks in to prevent anyone from being bankrupted by injury or illness -- because people by and large to not rationally provide for what they see as unlikely contingencies.

[Cyber Liberty]

Of course they are, and always do.  The youts are inexperienced in life's lessons, and fresh out of the indoctrination factories we call "schools."

[Free Vulcan]

They always have and they always will. They are political pedophiles by nature, always cruising and stalking the wide-eyed and naive bougie suburbanites with dreamy dreams of utopia.