Liberal haven festival-goers weigh government seizure of their homes: 'I'd be so game'
During a Sunday street festival in a notoriously liberal Maryland hotspot just across the Washington, D.C. border, some attendees told Fox News Digital they wouldn't mind if the government seized...
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During a Sunday street festival in a notoriously liberal Maryland hotspot just across the Washington, D.C. border, some attendees told Fox News Digital they wouldn't mind if the government seized their property, including their homes. "Yeah, I mean broadly," said Maryland resident Matt Volk when asked if he would support the government taking his home. "It's highly situational, but I definitely think that there's a lot of privately owned land and property that would be better put to use for public use, for resources and housing and things like that for people who are in need of things like that." Fox News Digital took to the streets during a rainy Sunday at the Takoma Park Street Festival to interview area residents about just how much power they would be willing to cede to the government as socialism becomes increasingly popular, especially among younger Americans. Takoma Park is a liberal bastion just outside the nation's capital, where homes and businesses are adorned with LGBT pride paraphernalia, along with decorations marking their support for other leftist causes like the Black Lives Matter movement. YOUNG SWING-STATE VOTERS COZY UP TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS, SAY PARTY ESTABLISHMENT MUST ‘LEARN’ FROM DSA WINS One attendee, Karen Irwin, sported a t-shirt that said "Auntifa: Making White men uncomfortable since 1975." She agreed with Volk's sentiment. "I mean, if we were all doing it, I'd be so game," she said. "Do you know what I mean? And who's coming to me? Is this a decision I'm making through democratic means? Then yes, yes, I would be so game. If I voted for it, sure." "You want to be able to keep your property. From what time are we talking? From what in the history of this country? Is it just right now, from right now moving forward, whatever it is you have?" Irwin asked. "Or, you know, 100 years ago, when someone else had it. But the government might have taken it away for whatever reason." A Fox News poll from March found that 38% of those asked said…