{"id":320,"date":"2025-09-08T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:34:45","slug":"american-approval-of-capitalism-falls-to-all-time-low-gallup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/american-approval-of-capitalism-falls-to-all-time-low-gallup\/","title":{"rendered":"American approval of capitalism falls to all-time low \u2013 Gallup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Democratic voters in particular increasingly prefer socialism, an opinion poll has indicated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barely half of Americans view capitalism favorably, while Democratic voters increasingly prefer socialism, a new Gallup poll has indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in August among over 1,000 adults nationwide, showed just 54% of respondents had a positive opinion of capitalism &ndash; the lowest figure since Gallup began tracking views on the system in the early 2010s, when approval stood at 61%. Support for socialism remained largely unchanged at 39%, Gallup said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans continue to strongly back capitalism, with 74% expressing support. Among Democrats, approval has slipped to 42%, lower than half for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Democratic support for socialism has climbed to 66%, up from 50% in 2010. Gallup noted that Democrats have consistently favored socialism over capitalism since 2016, and that the gap has continued to widen.<\/p>\n<p>While Americans broadly approve of free enterprise and small business, their views of large corporations have dropped sharply, from 58% approval in 2012 to a record low of 37% this year. Democrats in particular expressed hostility toward Big Tech, Big Pharma, and other corporate sectors, with only 17% viewing them positively.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/624265-us-ideology-american-dream\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>\u2018American dream\u2019 just a tool of manipulation \u2013 Chinese think tank<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Gallup said these shifts explain why openly socialist-leaning politicians can win elections in the US. Examples included Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, who has proposed opening publicly owned food markets to address supply problems, is running without establishment Democratic backing despite defeating former Mayor Andrew Cuomo in the party&rsquo;s primary. Cuomo is now campaigning against him as an independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic voters in particular increasingly prefer socialism, an opinion poll has indicated Barely half of Americans view capitalism favorably, while Democratic voters increasingly prefer socialism, a new Gallup poll has indicated. The survey, conducted in August among over 1,000 adults nationwide, showed just 54% of respondents had a positive opinion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/american-approval-of-capitalism-falls-to-all-time-low-gallup\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}