Fascinating polling from YouGov. Some headlines:
Of the polled ideologies, ‘Environmentalism’ and ‘Feminism’ are the most popular, with clear majorities having favourable views of both (66% and 56% respectively). Majorities of Labour, Lib Dem, Green and even Conservative voters say they approve of both (Conservatives only very narrowly for feminism), as do all age groups. But the age-group most in favour of environmentlism are 50-64 year-olds.
‘Liberalism’ and ‘Socialism’ are both more popular than ‘Conservatism’.
Virtually nobody will admit they have a favourable view of ‘Fascism’, even Reform voters (4%) - but a majority of Reform voters have favourable views of ‘Nationalism’
Virtually nobody will admit they have a favourable view of ‘Fascism’, even Reform voters (4%) - but a majority of Reform voters have favourable views of ‘Nationalism’
Fascists hate being called “fascists”.
Historically they pretended they were socialists.
I wonder how truthful any of this is anyway? One of the reason Western democracies love secret ballots is that it allows someone to proclaim something in public and vote the opposite in private.
Also agree with comment about how much people actually understand terms. For instance, I wonder whether people think Anarchism is bomb-throwing terrorist chaos.
I like how the article ignores that the majority despise capitalism. That seems a pretty important topic for discussion
It’s an interesting poll but I think a lot hinges on how people interpret those ideologies. They may be hone lost popular but there’s probably a lot of differing and conflicting views on what environmentalism and feminism actually are.
There’s a few curious data points there too. Like libertarianism being more popular among Green and Labour votes, and 1 point less among Reform compared to Conservatives.
Historically, ‘libertarian’ was a leftwing ideology. It’s only a fairly recent and, even then, a fairly American development that it was co-opted by Ayn Rand types. Then there are people like Noam Chomsky, who calls himself a ‘libertarian socialist’. Presumably some such people would have expressed a favourable view of both libertarianism and socialism given this survey.
I wonder if yougov gave any description for what each one meant or if you just got a single word to go with. If it’s the latter then I think the results are a lot less meaningful, I’ve discovered on Lemmy that people furiously disagree about what the word “liberal” means!
I’m alarmed by the amount of people who think environmentalism is a bad thing.
