Voters’ feelings on socialism have changed with half of those under 40 saying they would prefer to live in a socialist country
In his 1998 movie, Bulworth, Warren Beatty played a Democratic senator who travels rogue, embarking on a truth-telling binge in which he gushes revolutionary truths no Democrat serious about election would ever utter. At one stage, Bulworth even mentions socialism.
“In America that’s like saying cocksucker, ” Beatty formerly told me with a chuckle over dinner at his home in Los Angeles shortly before the movie came out in Britain a year later. “We have this so-called thriving economy which has missed most people and while the disparity between rich and poor grows we have just one party- the money party, made up of Republicans and Democrats.”
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