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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’m alarmed by the amount of people who think environmentalism is a bad thing.
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!
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.