Posted on 08/16/2021 4:46:31 PM PDT by fugazi
Putting aside how you would answer these rhetorical questions, consider for a moment how your these questions would apply to circle of friends, family, coworkers and neighbors. We are largely stuck with our neighbors, coworkers, and family, those people should carry more weight as we can choose who are our friends are. Maybe you are a conservative-leaning person who knows tons of people who these questions would apply to. Maybe you're a liberal and you've never met anyone that thinks this way. The point is just to think about things from a different perspective.
) How many people you know believe the U.S. Department of Justice violates civil liberties for political reasons?
) Would many people in your circle be surprised if we discovered that the United States imprisoned people for political reasons, or do they think we already do target certain groups while criminal activity of others is ignored?
) How many of your neighbors feel strongly that Democrats and the media pose a greater threat to American liberty and security than foreign threats like Islamic terrorist groups, China, or Russia?
) Would it surprise you if some of neighbors believed that a political family was behind -- or is at least could be -- the deaths of dozens of Americans that seem to have known too much? Or have you actually had that conversation?
) If you were to guess, do you think your average neighbor would trust the Supreme Court more or less than they do with people drawn randomly than they are with our current justices?
) How many of your neighbors think their government is spying on them for political purposes?
) Are there any in your circle that changed from liberal to conservative, or vise-versa in the last few years?
) Do you think your neighbors trust what the Center for Disease Control or National Institute of Health says about COVID?
) Would you be surprised to find out that a majority of your neighbors believe that American tax dollars funded a Chinese biological weapon, or would you think that a majority of your neighbors trust our government to tell us the facts and follow observable, unbiased science?
) Would you think that some in your circle think that external powers like China has leverage over this administration that affects our policy?
) Do you know many people who have abandoned brands or walked away from their favorite sports based on politics?
) How many people think that our own government is purposely trying to weaken and transform the United States into a Socialist state?
) How many people do you know recently became new gun owners? How many do you think did so for reasons involving political uncertainty?
) Have any of your neighbors reached the point that there isn't anything that the Democrat Party would do at this point that could still surprise your neighbors?
) How many of these neighbors would you say feel that most Republicans are actually Democrats and only a relative handful of the Republican Party still stands for liberty and capitalism?
) Would many people in your circle feel confident that the military, given our generals and admirals in the Pentagon and their current Commander-in-Chief, is capable of winning a war against a nation like China or Russia? Considering those same leaders, how many of your circle feel confident our Armed Forces, with its arsenal of aircraft carriers, tanks, stealth aircraft, and other cutting-edge weapons -- wielded by one million-plus outstanding men and women --could defeat illiterate barbarians armed with primitive weaponry?
) How many of your neighbors would you say believe the president was legitimately elected?
Now consider if you're old enough what those answers would have been 10, 20, 30 years ago or more compared to now. Interesting.
Neighbors around here rarely see/talk to each other and they certainly don’t talk about politics, etc. It’s just small talk like, “hi.”
“Now consider if you’re old enough what those answers would have been 10, 20, 30 years ago or more compared to now. Interesting.”
I’m guessing my old man would have answered yes to many of these questions based on my discussions with him about FDR, the Kennedys and Johnson.
Sounds like the kind questions I’d expect from Chris Wray’s goons as they interrogate Freepers.
In the Soviet Union in Stalin’s time they would interrogate people who had yet to denounce anyone and force them to come up with several names of people who had said things critical of the government.
Most of my neighbors can’t ingest enough their beloved government fast enough. They love their maks and their boostahs and their free rent and their covid-relief checks and their icecream-schlurping half-wit.
The way things are going, I’d say expect someone from the Justice Department to contact you between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm next Thursday.
All of the above.
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Most people live in normalcy bias. Like societal inertia or societal momentum.
So yes, yes is a safer guess for most.
Most of my neighbors can’t ingest enough their beloved government fast enough.
What I can tell you is that, before this year, I never gave any credence to the theories that JFK was murdered by people in our own government.
Same here. If I meet someone that really has some snap, I will ask a couple questions like this just to get a feel. I've met some really interesting people that way.
Over the past couple of years I have seen and learned enough that I no longer trust the government and corporate media.
1) I would say most of my neighbors don’t think that deeply.
2) They wouldn’t believe it.
3) None
4) no, I haven’t had that conversation and that’s even a bit much for me.
5) I don’t think most of my neighbors care about the justices as long as Roe v. Wade doesn’t get messed with.
6) I don’t think the thought has crossed their mind any more than the average American— most assume in today’s world somebody is seeing or hearing something you’d prefer not.
7) yes, a relative when he started college, he’s pretty liberal now.
8) oh my yes, it’s like tablets from Moses
9) they’re too scared to be called racist to ever think China did anything underhanded. It was just a bat out of hell, that’s all.
10) they wouldn’t see a problem in the influence.
11) a few but not that many
12) they don’t think like that, they can go to the store, McDs, get gas— everything’s fine, except they don’t have ‘free’ healthcare and oil is finite and dirty.
13) none but I don’t think most are going to blab THAT because I think underneath everything….most suspect something is not right and mostly stay mum.
14) most of my neighbors would French kiss a Democrat.
15) I don’t even care about Democrats and Republicans anymore, I’m not really a libertarian, either. I think we live in the United States of Corruption and I don’t play for a team any longer.
16) I think most still feel confident in our military, but I do see that slipping on both sides.
17) I don’t know, I’ve never discussed it because I get too po’d . Our elections are dirty, I am certain of it and there’s no need for discussion or affirmation. It’s just a filthy disgusting fact.
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