{"id":23762,"date":"2016-05-06T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23762"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:27:07","slug":"now-some-positive-news-free-enterprise-remains-far-more-popular-than-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23762\/now-some-positive-news-free-enterprise-remains-far-more-popular-than-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News:  Free Enterprise Remains Far More Popular Than Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t give up on American culture and run off to some deserted island or desolate wilderness hut just yet. \u00a0There&#8217;s still some good news to report.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/191354\/americans-views-socialism-capitalism-little-changed.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=heading&amp;utm_campaign=syndication\">Gallup survey<\/a>, free enterprise, small businesses and capitalism remain far more popular among Americans than socialism or the federal government. \u00a0Despite the media kid-gloves treatment of admitted socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, only 35% of respondents say they maintain a positive view of socialism. \u00a0That is actually down from 2010 and 2012, when 36% and 39% reported positive feelings. \u00a0As for the federal government, which too many candidates from all parties continue to offer as some sort of elixir for what ails us, only 44% report positive feelings. \u00a0That is also down from 2010 and 2012, when 46% and 51% held it in high esteem.<\/p>\n<p>So congratulations, Obama. \u00a0Not exactly the transformative presidency in the mold of Ronald Reagan to which <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/columnist\/raasch\/2009-04-16-raasch-column-04162009_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">you aspired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 85% of Americans report positive feelings toward free enterprise, 60% hold capitalism favorably despite constant sloganeering from the political left and an astonishing 96% hold small business in high esteem.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s just a matter of all of us doing a better job of putting those ideals into practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t give up on American culture and run off to some deserted island or desolate wilderness hut just yet. \u00a0There&#8217;s still some good news to report. According to a new Gallup survey, free enterprise, small businesses and capitalism remain far more popular among Americans than socialism or the federal government. \u00a0Despite the media kid-gloves treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,3603,842,1992,1389],"class_list":["post-23762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-capitalism","tag-free-enterprise","tag-gallup","tag-socialism","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23767,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions\/23767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}