Socialism on the rise in the U.S

Socialism is on the rise in the United States, according to a new poll done by Pew Research Center 35% of the general U.S population identifies as socialist. While that number is not even half of the U.S population, the figures are concerning to some government officials, who remember socialism all too well. Colonel James Christmas of the U.S marines has called these figures "disturbing" and "deeply concerning".

According to Pew Research Center 87% of the surveyed were millennials, 3% baby boomers and 10% generation X. The majority of the millennials surveyed were college students.

Socialism has been steadily declining in most countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. Though, in the U.S.A. it has been the opposite, socialism has been rising steadily since the early 1990's. America has been combating communism as well as socialism since the first Red Scare, shortly after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Then came the second Red Scare led by senator Joe McCarthy shortly after WWII, during the Cold War. America has even made it illegal to be a communist. Signed by U.S president Dwight Eisenhower, the Communist Control Act of 1954 "criminalizes membership in, or support for the Party or "Communist-action" organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of such organizations."