From an interview of Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of the Romanian intelligence service under Ceausescu, by Madeleine Simon:
14. Since coming to America, what most positively surprised you about the country, and what has most negatively surprised you?
[…]
What most negatively surprised me? A 2008 Rasmussen poll showing that only 53% of Americans preferred capitalism to socialism. There seems to be a new generation of American young people who have no longer been taught real history in school, who know little if anything about the destructive power of Marxism — a sinister plague that dispossessed a third of the world’s population and killed some 94 million people — and who believe that a socialist utopia would solve everything in the world.
And he’s right ! I have three adult children, two of them lawyers, who don’t understand this distinction,
The 53% number somehow neatly aligns with the reported 47% who pay no taxes at all.
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http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
and may explain the (otherwise hard to believe) Iowa trade #s
There is a saying concerning family wealth building – “Coveralls to Coveralls in 3 generations”
The grandfather makes the money
The son keeps the business going but has a lavish lifestyle
The grandson has a lavish lifestyle
Meaning the tendency to forget things not experienced (ie, the difficulty in creating wealth) is complete by the 3rd generation.
So that is a factor – but then there were die hard leftists during the cold war (and earlier) who thought communism was great.
So maybe it is a factor of the 2.
The Chinese version is “First generation- coolie, second generation- merchant, third generation- rich man, fourth generation- coolie.
The US has been too polite to its communists and everybody pretends that there is no blood dripping from their hands. There is a polite looking away that does not serve the country well.
Linked here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2012/03/which-do-you-prefer-capitalism-or.html
Chasing down the 94 million number I find there is also a Black Book of Capitalism with very similar numbers.