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I'd love to know more about how that poll was conducted. 22% of democrats? 47% of independents? I'm skeptical that those are really reflective of how prevalent those attitudes are.
Oh no, that's pretty accurate. We lost the information war on immigration pretty horribly. The project to demonize the poor was set back by the pandemic, except for the homeless. So now they're going after the homeless first and they'll be back around for welfare recipients too.
It is not an exaggeration to say we're cannibalizing our marginalized populations for political capital.
Do y'all talk to people day-to-day?
I hear a lot of anti immigrant rhetoric from my immigrant aunts and my more "trashy" or low-class friends (all kids of immigrants)
I've been saying this for more than a decade now, before bots became such a huge thing (I think), if YouTube comments are any reflection of the average person/American, we're so beyond fucked. I absolutely do not practice cynicism
Yep. I think there's a huge amount of left leaning online people in denial.
They keep thinking that they just need to tell people about all these issues and then obviously those people will see it as wrong. Nope, a huge number of their fellow citizens are absolutely aware of this shit and actively approve of it.
Bringing 'awareness' is pointless if the people actually approve of this horrible stuff.
To be clear, I don't think most of these folks fully understand the consequences of supporting fascist politicians. My imm. aunt startled me a bit yesterday when said something like democracy means gay people everywhere. I said that's not true and "reminded" her democracy is a system of gov where citizens can vote, one where women weren't previously able to participate in, nor black citizens.
Still, where does that leave us? No fuckin joke, we basically need to stop trying to use facts to reach certain folks. My understanding is that means we need to use emotions/emotional intelligence. How do we do that? Not sure. Many of us had to numb the fuck out to survive what we call American culture, so we're really just barely learning
How do we now make Americans that kinda hate our guts, because of tons of propaganda, that we care about them and want to work with them to improve our nation? Most libs kinda do come off like they hate them, tbf
Idk if that made sense. Kinda stuck rn
Survey methodology is described in detail here - https://www.prri.org/research/challenges-to-democracy-the-2024-election-in-focus-findings-from-the-2024-american-values-survey/#page-section-12 (archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/FtPGJ)
Jesus Christ. The methodology actually sounds good. This is... So very, very troubling for our nation.
We've been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we've been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn't properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.
Almost 27% identify as independent?
Ive never seen any voting poll that even comes close to that. Majority in the survey are white, 50+, evangelical/mainline christian midwestern/southerners. That demographic doesn't help skew to 27% independent to me. The study posted source and methodology though so I don't know what to say.
Anecdotal, but my father, a white 50+ Christian Midwestern man, has made it very clear he's voting for Trump a third time. He's Republican in every way except on paper, because he's registered independent and identifies as such. So there's that
Edit, Google turns up this as the first result. In fact, every poll and article I found at a cursory gland supported that. Where are you getting your information that most voters aren't independent?
Yeah, OP is forgetting about all those capital-C Conservatives that won't register Republican because the Republicans are too moderate and those that left the party specifically so they can disavow this type of rhetoric but still vote straight (R).
There are a ton of independents that are "inverse RINOs" meaning they are Republicans in everything but name.
Oops! You missed the disclaimer: *of all participants polled, including only individuals who opted in to the poll, on this specific website or streetside polling campus, during these specific hours in the day.
Edit: Apologies if any of this was misleading. I only meant to point out that polls often have hidden implicit biases due to the nature of their process.
Careful spreading misinformation. This commenter linked the methodology. This is more serious than you'd think
I'm a third-generation immigrant in the UK who grew up in a working class environment. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is common.