What's the problem?
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.
Who is “politically obsessed”?
Those who talk about politics more than once a day.
or
Those who report on those who talk about politics every day for a living.?
This reflects my experience in dealing with “the elite.”
They feel entitled, and, being entitled, they believe they have the right to cheat to receive that to which they are entitled.
Most were raised “entitled,” benefiting from family money and support; and that entitled mentality is reflected throughout their belief structure.
Basically, spoiled little kids with too much power.
These “elites” are misnamed. They should be described as “out-of-touch losers”.
As long as they have men with gums willing to do their bidding and who willforce ypu to acquiesce to the same, they aren’t ‘losers’ per se.
But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating.
They miss JFK an want Biden to be the potted plant in the WH for another term.
VERY Interesting. Very Interesting Indeed?
Think about it. 1% ers are GLOBALIST Totalitarian Leftist/Fascist
And they zeroed in on the III % ers to be jailed and executed without a trial?
(I’ve never identified as a III % er, But believe in the widest form of freedom that is possible with the smallest government footprint (boot print). And would fight to preserve what we still have.
So There, I said it.
I’d venture to suggest many of these rich 1% got there BY CHEATING.
Of course, but it’s not surprising.
Just opened my electric bill. The rate shot up from 11 to 12 cents a kwh last year to nearly 14.5 cents this year. That is mild compared to what I thin will be in the coming attractions.
What's the problem?
They did that because Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. She was going to make history as the first woman president. And she's so amazing! We can't trust the American people to pick their preferred candidate for president ever again!
Liberalism is based on feelings, not logic. The ends justify the means.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
He foresaw this years ago.
The merge zones on our highways tells me this every single day...
This is why Trump won in 2016. The Democrats didn’t ramp up their cheating game. They didn’t make that mistake in 2020.
How will they cheat in 2024? Remains to be seen.
They lack a functioning moral compass.
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I’ve always found it to be true that while conservatives have high moral standards - democrats have double standards.
And the marxist democrats answered, “I would rather win by just murdering our political enemies.”
Of course the elites don’t mind cheating to win. They think they are smarter and wiser than the unwashed masses allowed to vote in this country.
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