Oh ffs:
It's bad enough that half of all Republicans think Democratic leaders run child sex-trafficking rings, but 21% of Democrats think so too. So why are they still Democrats, anyway?
In any case, thanks conservative media! It's good to see that you're on the job as always.
Read the comments on virtually any Breitbart article. Anybody they disagree with is now a pedophile. This has been steadily building over the last year. Now it is constant.
This has been steadily building over the last year
It's been building considerably longer than that.
& the guy who accused the Thai scuba rescuers of being paedarasts is trying to take over Twitter!
Elon Musk is the wealthiest African-American there ever was, and if you try to stop him that makes you racist. Or something like that.
(i read that today on twitter so it must be true)
Sometimes, it is hard to be optimistic about the future.
I take little notice of the daily torrent of polls with which the US public opinion industry bombards us. This particular poll is described as 'internet opt-in', by which I assume the respondents were 1500 weirdos who volunteered to waste their time answering 137 random questions online. Such a poll is not representative of the population, no matter how the polling organization manipulates the data.
There's been evidence for a long time that an alarming number of Americans have swallowed numerous crude myths and legends about the contemporary world, but I place no faith in surveys like this to quantify the phenomenon.
The folks at 538 gave YouGov a B+ rating for their presidential polling, which seems to use a similar methodology. With the difficulty of phone polling, pollsters have been actively developing ways to make reasonable inferences using internet polling, and seem to have made some progress. Not perfect (but then, phone polling wasn't either). It wouldn't surprise me if the errors in their polls are a bit greater than advertised (retired statistician with little experience with survey statistics), but YouGov seems to be a serious shop, and we should take their numbers seriously. Depressing numbers, though.
If the poll is accurate, almost 40% of Americans think a small global cabal definitely or probably controls world events, while another 21% aren't sure. I suspect the true answers for most people would be of the "stuffed if I know/never really thought about it" variety, but the poll doesn't give them an option like that. The "not sure" option implicitly suggests they believe it's at least possible. There's a huge difference between "I've closely examined the arguments for and against and remain undecided" and "how TF would I know?", but poor survey design means they're all lumped into the "not sure" column.
It would be interesting to me how many of the "40%" are self-described "Christians", who do believe a small cabal controls world events, led by their god.
Well said on "poor survey design".
Well, they're right: A small global cabal does control world events. But which events, and to what degree is this cabal coordinated? As usual, a garbage question with garbage answers.
I don't have the background to evaluate the overall survey design here - I know just enough to know how sensitive survey results can be to question wording, and even question context - what questions came before or after, and how they were worded. In this case, though, wouldn't the correct answer for the "stuffed if I know/never really thought about it" be "unsure" when given the choices of "very sure, yes", "pretty sure, yes", "unsure", "pretty sure, no", and "very sure, no". It would be great to see a separate question about how much the respondent knows about any of these questions, but the survey already has something like 200 questions.
It's not perfect, it is failure. Stop polling your fantasy.
We ought to promote as the "Hastert Rule" the fact that Republicans actually do the things they accuse the Democrats of doing, in memory of the kiddie-diddling former Speaker of the House.
(I'm aware that there already is a Hastert Rule, but it's not nearly as interesting.)
This. In general, right wingers and Republicans engage in more projection than a suburban cineplex.
Add former Washington State legislator Matt Shea to the list of Republican pederasts.
This is because religious psychos have been getting away with this for centuries and social conservatives are incapable of dealing with it, so they project it.
They're just projecting louder now because they're all about to go insane.
Probably associated with the spectacle of actual Nazis calling other people Nazis, because they think meaning is meaningless and the only thing that matters is what you can get away with.
"Probably associated with the spectacle of actual Nazis calling other people Nazis, because they think meaning is meaningless and the only thing that matters is what you can get away with."
and we let them get away with it time and again.
I would be interested in a poll asking if people believed that Republicans are involved in sex and drug orgies in Washington D.C. like Madison Cawthorn says they are. I’d answer yes.
Russian news outlet publishes detailed plan for Ukrainian genocide,
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/04/russian-state-media-releases-report-outlining-chilling-plan-to-fully-eliminate-ukraine.html
Through the force of irony lost on them Tennessee Republicans are trying to legalize child brides,
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/05/tennessee-push-to-abolish-age-limit-on-heterosexual-marriages-amidst-groomer-outrage/
My guess is this is the result of the Jeffrey Epstein taint.
Epstein wasn't into prepub children. He was the "Heb". Post smarter and understand the con.
Keep in mind that half of Republicans amount to no more than 20% more or less of the general population.
About the same percentage who believe that the Bible is the actual word of God, and is being taken, absolutely literally.
And so on...
(My personal depressing favorite is the 12 to 20% of Americans who believe that children should not be vaccinated.)
An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older -- about 1 in 4 adults -- suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. In particular, depressive illnesses tend to co-occur with substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
"…is being taken, absolutely literally"
If that were true, Evangelicalism would be entirely different.
If that were true, Evangelicalism would be entirely different
Evangelicalism comes in many flavors. Even among the "literalists", There are different constructions.
Several major examples: the belief that the New Testament supersedes the Old - the laws about rituals, etc. were ended by the arrival of Christ. That one translation is more correct than another. That the Lord sometimes chose to use metaphor in His language.
The key is that for Evangelicals, is that the Bible, without doubt, is the Holy Truth given directly by God to mankind.
The same can be said about Orthodox Jews, and Muslims.
This is leading up to Republican death squads getting the green light to murder liberals. And this trajectory has been pretty obvious for over a decade.
Vice versa on that. Republicans are gonna die.
Every accusation made by a fascist is a confession.
I wonder what the results would’ve shown if they asked if people asked the same questions about Republicans being involved in elite sex rings. I’m guessing that there’s a serious overlap between the people who think there’s a shadowy cabal that’s running the world and that think that there’s a secret elite Democratic pedophile ring out there. And plenty of them probably would agree that there’s a Republican one as well. This is all about the removal of the so-called guardrails on information that used to exist.
But if we just move to the center...
We'd be in Right Field!
So how many pedophile Democrats does this imply? 10 million? If we assume one child passed around between every 10 Democrats, that would mean 1 million children are victims of Democratic pedophilia. Wouldn't someone notice if 1 million kids were missing? Wouldn't a few tens of thousands escape and report the crime? Wouldn't any law enforcement discover any of these victims? The Roman Catholic Church couldn't even pull this off.
Well, Ginni Thomas likes being in the news .
That poll has some weaponized ambiguity behind it.
So there was this guy named Jeffrey Epstein, right? He did sex trafficking. Some of the people who might or might not be associated with him are Democrats. Not people in elected office, but people who vote D, and maybe donate.
Terribleness knows no party.
That's not what is generally thought of in response to this question, but its what some people, particularly Democrats might think of.
Most Democrats think that most Republicans are pedos. Period.
"... 21% of Democrats think so too. So why are they still Democrats, anyway?"
Did you miss the part about Democrats being pedophiles?