The Real Reason Socialism Is Winning In America
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.6 | So saw some data recently, Jade, that 70% of millennials have a favorable view of socialism. |
| 0:17.4 | Now, I make that statement, a lot of you get real nervous. There's a lot of emotions right now, and that's okay, because we're going to be adults |
| 0:24.4 | and we're going to step into something that needs to be talked about. |
| 0:28.2 | And that is the affordability crisis in America. |
| 0:31.2 | Now, I start with that data, Jade, because you hear that and you go, what? |
| 0:36.7 | And some of you may go, oh, these whatever, whatever, whatever insults |
| 0:41.3 | that you might come up with. You're outraged by that. I understand that. They're outraged by the |
| 0:47.0 | affordability process? No, outrage that 70% of millennials view socialism favorably. Okay. All right. So then we |
| 0:53.3 | have a big election and Mom Donnie becomes, |
| 0:56.9 | he's an avowed socialist. He becomes the mayor of New York that creates a lot of emotions. |
| 1:02.8 | You're going to see a lot of headlines. That guy's name and what he stands for is going to be in |
| 1:07.0 | the news a lot. Yeah. So I'm addressing this not from a political standpoint, but from a |
| 1:11.7 | financial economic standpoint. Okay. So whatever your emotions and feels are, here's what I want to |
| 1:16.9 | point out. The reason that 70% of millennials, and I don't know the numbers on Gen Z, but I'm raising |
| 1:23.5 | three, but why would a large chunk of Americans view socialism with some favorability? |
| 1:31.3 | I'm going to tell you why. There's three major financial reasons why. Number one, student debt. |
| 1:37.0 | We talk about student debt on this show all the time. It's gotten bigger and bigger and more |
| 1:42.1 | expensive. It is a full-blown crisis. |
| 1:44.7 | If you've ever listened to me, I've talked about it. |
| 1:47.7 | I think the federal government should not be in the banking business. |
| 1:51.6 | And that's what they're in when they are financing student loans. |
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