Posted on 04/03/2024 4:44:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Earlier this year, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked voters a simple question: “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”
The answers he got back were, as he put it in a Daily Signal podcast last week, “the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen.”
Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. As Rasmussen put it, he’d rather see that number lower, but that’s not bad.
But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating. And among those who are “politically obsessed” – meaning that they talk about politics every day – that number shot up to 69%.
Keep in mind that this elite 1% group is overwhelmingly liberal. According to Rasmussen, these are mainly well-educated urbanites who make more than $150,000 a year and think Joe Biden is doing a great job. Nearly three-quarters identify as Democrats.
They are also highly influential when it comes to policy, and they are completely out of touch with everyday Americans. A few examples from the survey:
- Nearly 60% say there is too much individual freedom in America – double the rate of all Americans.
- More than two-thirds (67%) favor rationing of energy and food to combat the threat of “climate change.”
- Nearly three-quarters (70%) of the elites trust the government to “do the right thing most of the time.”
- More than two-thirds (67%) say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide.
- Nearly three-quarters (74%) say they are financially better off than before COVID, compared with 20% of the general public.
These elites are also the people who are constantly wailing and gnashing their teeth about how Donald Trump is a “grave threat to democracy.” You can’t turn on the television, open a newspaper, or go to any mainstream news site without being warned that “democracy is on the ballot this November,” or told that Trump is a wannabe dictator, his followers semi-fascists, blah, blah, blah.
Yet most of these same elites would be happy to see Biden and the Democratic Party rob and cheat to steal an election rather than let Trump win a second term in office.
Which of course is what has been happening over the past three years, as the liberal elite class took off the gloves to block Trump’s return to the White House, stretching the law past the breaking point to put him on trial, imposing unprecedented fines (and then bragging that they are bankrupting him), and trying to block his name from showing up on the ballot.
As we noted in this space not long ago, leftist elites are even advocating that lawmakers refuse to certify the election if Trump wins it.
As Rasmussen puts it, “they don’t have much respect for the opinions of voters.”
And if these elites do manage to lie, cheat, and steal to secure Biden’s reelection? Well, they will declare that democracy has been saved, reassure the public that the election was 100% legitimate, and label anyone who thinks otherwise as an election-denying insurrectionist.
This says there is something wrong with this elite 1% group. Pretty pathetic.
Disagree. They’ve ALWAYS been this way... since the beginning of time. Our Founders recognized this and put in numerous checks to prevent them from gaining power again, but alas, we’ve abdicated our responsibilities as citizens to a select few. Tyranny has taken hold yet again.
Yes. Our elite are psychopaths. We knew that, but this is more evidence. The ones that don’t condone cheating aren’t exactly condemning it either.
They lack a functioning moral compass.
Before anyone has a kitten, check out the polling methodology...
This is a very interesting poll...
I condone cheating if it beats the 1%. Hell, I wouldn’t mind electing Hitler if he said he was going to exterminate the 1%.
The poll numbers that really scared Rasmussen was an unpublished result...
99% of those polled wanted pollsters publicly executed without trials.
:-)
At this point ANYTHING that stops the Democrats is necessary for the country, as far as I’m concerned. Once they WEAPONIZED the government against their political opponents they effectively suspended ALL ‘rules’ of political discourse.
There isn’t a big difference between their desire to cheat...and loading us up into the cattle cars.
“But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating”
A couple years ago on Facebook one liberal democrat, retired former schoolteacher in his mid 80s, told me that while he doesn’t believe Biden won because of cheating, even IF Biden won because of election fraud, he was OK with it just as long as it got Trump out of the white house.
The end of Revelation 6 gives me comfort. These elites will try to hide from God’s wrath but they can’t.
“…leftist elites are even advocating that lawmakers refuse to certify the election if Trump wins it.“
…Then they are no longer “lawmakers”…
Agree.
There were two different noble factions beginning to reach for power in Athens after the overthrow of a tyrant. The weaker of the two devised Democracy as a subterfuge to allow his faction an artificial and hidden contrivance to stay in power.
“...this elite 1% group is overwhelmingly liberal....make more than $150,000 a year and think Joe Biden is doing a great job. Nearly three-quarters identify as Democrats.”
For the love of money is the root of all evil....1 Timothy 6:10................
Makes you wonder how they acquired their 'elite' status. Think 'pull' in 'Atlas Shrugged', or a certain former NYC bartender who stole her co-workers tips.
That same mindset carries over into various things like protecting plagarists at Ivy League schools, different standards of 'justice' depending on a person's last name, or how its completely ok to seize and sell a person's/countie's assets 'because reaons'.
Identify individuals who hold these views.
The elites are an new aristocracy, they believe their wealth and power makes them supermen (in the Nazi way) above all normal standards of morality. They can do what they want, think what they want without having prove themselves right. Belief is reality. Think your a woman when you were born a man—that’s OK. Believe your ideas are right (as long as they make you feel good)—its OK. Feelings are facts. They are “Cruisen for a Brusen” in the future.
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