He notes some leftist intellectuals saw the danger of rejecting American symbolism as it was happening. Being able to use the flag as the embodiment of a specific set of values means imposing a specific vision of what is patriotic.
Conservatives, on the other hand, have embraced American symbolism, adopting it as their own. Conservatives have been winning the fight over American symbols for a long time.
Unbeknownst to conservatives, the anthems and poems they claim ownership of actually glorify democracy with a downright socialist vibe. Take the Pledge of Allegiance. Francis Bellamy, its author, was a minister who had been kicked out of the Boston congregation for depicting Jesus as socialist. He wrote the pledge to push back against the growing individualism and materialism of his country. She was a supporter of socialist politics—and wrote an anthem for an egalitarian country. Politicians who openly embrace a social democratic agenda , and refer to themselves as socialist, have grown huge bases of support.
Sanders is now the frontrunner in a crowded and hard-fought presidential campaign. Another candidate, senator Elizabeth Warren, promotes social reforms aimed at curbing inequality and is polling second nationally. Americans are still emerging from the darkness of the financial crisis.
And in this new light they are understandably more distrustful of financial institutions and the other capitalist forces that led to it. And Americans are even losing faith in the once celebrated tech industry, with giant conglomerates like Google, Apple and Amazon wielding huge amounts of influence on every aspect of life. A graduate of Yale Law School, he is a Ph. IE 11 is not supported.
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Asked if they had a positive or negative image of various things, respondents gave very high marks to small business, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise, and 56 percent approval to capitalism. The federal government and socialism lagged far behind at 39 and 37 percent. These are numbers for all respondents, not just young people as above. In Gallup found that 67 percent of Americans believed big government was a bigger threat to the future than big business was.
Only 26 percent picked big business, and 5 percent said big labor. The results show that Republicans and Democrats seem to have very different conceptions of what a socialist country is. In all three of these cases, Republicans are substantially more likely to say they are socialist than Democrats, by percentage points. In these cases, it is the Democrats who are noticeably more likely to think of them as socialist, by points. Opinion also noticeably differs regarding France, Brazil, Mexico and India which Republicans are more likely to see as socialist and Australia Democrats are more likely to see as socialist.
This survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1, U. This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the US Bureau of the Census, as well as Presidential vote, registration status and geographic region.
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