It seems like “radical left policies” are supported by a significant majority of Americans.
Overall pretty promising results, but the one that baffles me is the majority opposition to cutting military spending. Maybe I’m in a bubble but who the fuck looks at current spending levels and thinks that’s a good thing, especially now that we aren’t even at war. I guess the new cold war is ramping up with China but last I checked were still spending orders of magnitude more then them.
I always thought support for military spending was shallow and manufactured by the military industrial complex, but these polls seem to show a lot of people actually strongly support military spending. Looks like age is the biggest contributing factor, with under 45 supporting cuts while over 45 strongly opposing cuts. Maybe it’s a cold war thing, of nostalgia and pride for the Reagan / top gun era american empire.
I think the Ukraine situation does more to increase the favorability of military spending than anything with China.
But mostly I think America being late to intervene in WWII still hangs over the American public’s heads (to me it would seem this is the point when anti-interventionism stopped being the norm.)
