05-27-2021, 09:04 PM
(05-27-2021, 02:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-27-2021, 02:13 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Little to do with the Presidency, at least directly. The big one:
43. Which comes closer to your point of view: the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten, or too much is being made of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and it is time to move on?
never to be forgotten/time to move on/don't know
T 55-39-6
R 18-74-8
D 84-12-4
I 52-42-4
Potentially affecting the results of elections:
[/url]40. Which comes closer to your point of view: it is necessary to pass new voting laws to protect election integrity or it is not necessary to pass new voting laws because elections in the United States are already secure?
[url=https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3811#question-5]necessary/not necessary/ don't know or not applicable:
T 50-43-7
R 82-14-3
D 28-68-6
I 53-41-7
Other questions more politically charged include whether people think the two main Parties are serving the best interests of the People, COVID-19 involving inoculation and mask mandates, and on abortion whether people approve or disapprove of Roe v. Wade and expect it to be overturned. These are all highly-polarized issues.
OK -- want to see a non-polarizing issue?
52. As you may know, the United States government has acknowledged there have been unexplained sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which are more commonly known as UFOs, by military aircraft. Do you think they are man-made aircraft of unknown origin or do you think they are aircraft from another world?
man-made aircraft/from another world/don't know
T 43-35-22
R 43-36-21
D 43-36-21
I 44-34-22
Just look to the poll.
Interesting. The Republicans are so wrong, so many of them, on Jan. 6. But everybody is wrong in equal measure on the UFOs/UAPs. No way can an object made in Russia or China scoot off instantaneously at over 10000 miles an hour, with no exhaust and no visible means of flight!
China still mostly copies USA tech.
18-74-8. Those in the 74 are excusing an attempted coup, that had it been successful, might have brought an end to American democracy. A leader refusing to accept an electoral loss is one way of starting or continuing a dictatorship. It is possible to believe in all sorts of right-wing measures and still be compatible with democracy. That includes opposition to abortion, support of flat taxes or a national Right-to-Work (fo0r starvation pay) law, or outlaw homosexuality.
I can understand many Republicans thinking that the Capitol putsch is to be treated as an event that went nowhere and thus must be treated as a triviality so that Americans can start some healing process. Such is a delusion. First, it would be terribly wrong if "our side" did it. Second, the intentions were to subvert the electoral process. Third, most Americans who vote have no other participation in the political process; does some clique of crazies have the right to overturn an election because they dislike the result?
...Integrity in elections is of course something that nobody can legitimately oppose. Vote-by-mail in all fifty states and DC (with the Treasury compensating the USPS for costs would make electoral shenanigans of all kinds very difficult. The Post office could make special deliveries on Election Day, closing the last open boxes in accordance with the local law.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.