Jack Cafferty: 36% of Americans have a positive view of socialism.

[Fridays Child]

That's significant and much higher than I would have imagined.

[CTyankee]

1. Me too. I used to say it was because more Americans had gone to Europe and expereinced

their life style and had a chance to talk to them about their health care v. ours. But now I think some people are waking up to the fact that universal health care isn't a BAD thing a good thing we can realize.

[Fridays Child]

5. Maybe people are waking up and actually examining what socialism means.

Finally understanding that it's a form of government which supports all of the people who own it, not just the corporate scoundrels--or as Teddy Roosevelt called them, "malefactors of great wealth."

[JBoy]

2. 36% actually know what socialism means.

[Jennicut]

3. Because some people are sick of capitalism....

or at least the kind that is really corporate welfare.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Only 15% to go.

Or maybe we need 25% to overcome a filibuster.

[kstewart33]

6. Maybe the number is rising because

people are realizing that capitalism isn't the answer for everything, that some things that are most important in life (health care insurance for one) can't be run effectively or ethically by profit-making entities.

Morality and the profit motive are a poor mix.

[Fridays Child]

7. The prospect of early death or grinding poverty, when both are avoidable...

...has a way of waking people up.

[leftstreet]

8. This is amazing, considering there no strong Leftist movements here

Very interesting

I'd be curious to know what the respondents' definition of socialism was

[Fridays Child]

9. Given the dumbing down of America, I fear that some respondents may think a socialist is...

...a person who enjoys going to parties and other social events. x(