There’s no getting around it: Our “corporate media” is down on capitalism, and a new poll showing a growing disdain for the foundation of American economic thought shows the media tilt may be working — or the professorial tilt.
An NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters found that support for capitalism fell under 50 percent for the first time in seven years. The chilling shift “comes as some democratic socialists, like New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani, gain prominence in the Democratic Party,” NBC News national politics reporter Ben Kamisar wrote in his November 2 item. Only 44 percent of registered voters — a mere plurality — now view capitalism positively. Previous NBC News polls “showed slim majorities viewing capitalism positively.”
Just seeing what the American people are inundated with on a day-to-day basis by rich media hacks denigrating the very system that gave them their prosperity in the first place.
In fact, it was CNN itself that defended Mamdani’s insane Marxist proposal for city-owned grocery stores in June. Despite admitting that the entire notion was being condemned as a “‘Soviet’ disaster-in-waiting,” CNN reporter Nathaniel Meyersohn then flushed common sense down the drain by defending the policy: “But Mamdani is drawing on government-owned and subsidized models that already exist in the United States.” Ignore the failure in Kansas City. This is like saying, “Government rationing is just the spider’s ankles! Just ask Venezuela or Cuba!” But what more can you ask from the network that spent years trying to shove the imaginary virtues of the socialist disaster of Bidenomics to its audience? Of course it’s going to carry water for Mamdani now.
In August, leftist MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi went on a rant against capitalism and whipped out the exhausted narrational strategy of pitting proletariats against the big, bad bourgeoisies. His solution: Raise taxes to stick it to Wall Street and fund lefty pie-in-the-sky items such as “universal healthcare,” “green infrastructure,” and a “national carbon price.” How original (not).
How about when Politico engaged in blatant revisionist history by insisting in October 2024 that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was riding a “dream economy” into the presidential election, despite inflation having run amok and spiking the cost of living for Americans?
Here’s an outrageous example: The New York Times actually tried to blame “brutal capitalism” in July 2024 as the reason for why communist country Venezuela’s economy was in freefall. The newspaper cited no specific cohort of “economists” who made the asinine claim that capitalism, as opposed to the socialism that was exacerbated under dictator Nicholas Maduro, was solely at fault for Venezuela’s economic upheaval. The leftist rag apparently also didn’t realize the contradiction in railing against a “state-connected minority controlling much of the wealth,” like that had anything to do with capitalism in the first place.
And it wasn’t just the media that was feeding into the cacophony of anti-capitalist voices bellowing with impunity across the internet in addition to broadcast and cable TV.
You even had the Soros machine legitimizing nutty agendas like taxing unrealized gains and filtering Marxist arguments into the media bloodstream. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), fueled with $6,230,000 by leftist billionaire George Soros between 2016 and 2022, pathetically attempted to swat down opponents of the Biden-Harris unrealized capital gains tax proposal for the 2025 budget in a ridiculous September 11, 2024 so-called analysis. Just 12 days later, Politico, for example, lambasted the Joint Committee on Taxation in a Sept. 23 piece for not recognizing unrealized gains as income when determining that the affluent pay fairly “robust” amounts in taxes, as if that was a legitimate criticism.
If this is all the American people — especially the younger generation — are seeing and reading in everything that excuses itself as news or analysis, is it any surprise that their view of capitalism is on the decline? If anything, the NBC poll should be a wake-up call to all freedom-loving Americans who don’t want to see socialism — much less communism — become the north star of the American experiment.
