[rightwingintelligentsia]

May God help us--29% of Americans actually agree with Maxine Waters?

[Slapshot68]

“May God help us—29% of Americans actually agree with Maxine Waters?”

I’m sure a very high percentage of them aren’t old enough to remember the 70s.

[Poison Pill]

Government already controls the industry through massive regulation. Why bother with the headache of asset ownership?

[Red Badger]

We’re approaching “peak ignorance”...................

[jveritas]

29% are socialists/communists and or totally stupid.

[avacado]

This is scary. But what is scarier is not so much this poll, but the reason for the results of the poll. America is getting dumber and dumber by the day. Add to the mix 12 million illegals granted amnesty and voting and we’ll no longer have an educated majority voting and shaping this country.

[G Larry]

That’s because “most Americans” are ignorant of economics and are too preoccupied to comprehend any policy or solution that doesn’t fit on a bumpersticker.

The elitists would love to strangle American industry and the carbon culture. They see people as the enemy of the earth. They see prosperity, freedom, and America, as the enemy of the world.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Pitiful

Lack of intellectual rigor in the educational system eventually results in a generation unable to examine issues logically.

Sheep for the shearing or for the slaughter.

[yldstrk]

That is a Democrat lie.

[snowrip]

Just 32% of voters in Barack Obama’s party

Ahhh, yes... the Marxist Idiocy, Gutlessness, and Racism Party.

Go ahead, Washington... nationalize oil. The people of America are already asking each other how much more we can bear before we start taking this to the streets. A few more years of what you're dishing out will make tearing you from your ivory towers even more satisfying when it happens.

[Brilliant]

The irony is that there really isn’t much to nationalize that is left in the US. Most of what the oil companies own in the US is nonproductive. The vast bulk of the oil in the US is owned by the federal government.

[2harddrive]

Federal Oil and Gas Corporation - FOGCO! When that happens, I throw my allegiance to OPEC!

[Bringbackthedraft]

Republicans oppose nationalizing the oil industry by a 66% ................................. Republicans probably have more invested in Oil Company stocks than Democrats. Democrat Union Workers don’t realize that their pension funds are tied into the oil stocks.

[neodad]

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 29% of voters favor nationalizing the oil industry. Just 47% are opposed and 24% are not sure.

Just like everything else you could poll on. How is almost half "just"? How about a headline "Only 29% of Voters Want to Nationalize the Oil Industry"?

[JustaCowgirl]

How long will it be before we are effectively living in Venezuela, with BO as our own personal Hugo Chavez?

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this is truly scary.

[madison10]

47% is close to half. The other half don’t even know what they’re asking for.

[PGalt]

Great thread. Since BIG GOVERNMENT is already NATIONALIZED perhaps we should capitalize on it. Throw ALL incumbents out?...or extinguish one of the parties...then we will see a revolt against the remaining clowns.

[andy58-in-nh]

There are daily reminders of why we need to thank our Founders for establishing a Republic with democratic institutions rather than a Democracy with republican pretensions. There is no way we might have survived for 232 years and counting if our government had been steered by the emotionalism and prejudices of an ill-informed public. On the other hand, we do today face the prospect of our nation being led by the emotionalism and prejudices of an ill-informed elite. Against that risk, we have a well-designed Constitution, assuming we obey it.

[Savage Beast]

Man! That's scary.

This is due in part to the failure of the "Newsmedia" to inform the public truthfully and in part to the deterioration of U.S. colleges and universities into Leftist, Marxist madrassas. The descent of the free press into a Leftist propaganda machine is one of the most ignominious and dangerous events of recent history. The perversion of U.S. academic institutions is another.

If the U.S.A. should sink into a Marxist, stalinist hellhole, these two events will be a large part of the reason.

Were it not for these two events, Barack Obama would not even be under serious consideration for the Presidency of the United States.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, why not? The left makes gains because those who believe in traditional American values are picking their nose while socialism is taught in the schools, promoted in the press, and legislated from the local to the national level.

The left has the Soros billionaires and the right has billionaires that spend their money on...I don't know, but it isn't fighting back. Sad but true without money it stays down at the grass roots level. This means a lot of people like Freepers are doing what we can but we are having our hats handed to us.

[Jim Noble]

Keep your powder dry.