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51% Say United States Is Last Best Hope of Mankind (Rasmussen poll)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 16, 2010 | Rasmussen

Posted on 05/17/2010 1:59:11 PM PDT by SmartInsight

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of voters nationwide believe the United States is the last best hope of mankind. Twenty-six percent (26%) disagree, and 24% are not sure.

Conservatives overwhelmingly believe that the United States is the last best hope. However, by a 43% to 29% margin, liberals disagree.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2010polls; bhofascism; bhosocialism; democrats; freedom; liberalfascism; liberty; obama; rasmussen; socialistdemocrats; unitedstates
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If liberals don't like it here, I wish they would move to Venezuela or Cuba.

This was a survey of likely voters, I find it sad that only half of them see the US as the last best hope of mankind. Public school education is taking its toll -- 51% to 37% those under 30 disagree with that statement.

1 posted on 05/17/2010 1:59:11 PM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: SmartInsight

OK. For ‘liberals’ then, what IS?


2 posted on 05/17/2010 2:01:06 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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51% say America is the last hope for civilization. 49% don't think there is any hope remaining.
3 posted on 05/17/2010 2:02:05 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: combat_boots

Islam in Saudi Arabia...

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The pollsters should have asked that...


4 posted on 05/17/2010 2:03:04 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: SmartInsight

...not if Odumbo can help it


5 posted on 05/17/2010 2:03:59 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: SmartInsight

The 2013 version of the USA is the last best hope.


6 posted on 05/17/2010 2:05:03 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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To: SmartInsight

If I was in charge, I’d have a one way ticket, move all your household items to anywhere program, for any lib. Conditions: give up citizenship, passport, and automatically on the no fly list. I’m completely sick and tired of this crap.

Tomorrow will be a good indicator.


7 posted on 05/17/2010 2:05:09 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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To: omega4179

Until then, we’re pretty much screwed.


8 posted on 05/17/2010 2:05:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SmartInsight
Well, of course the so-called "liberals" (Progressives) don't think America is the "last best hope," because liberty is not their passion. Their real passion is to be part of a ruling political class.

These so-called "liberals" portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's 200-year experiment in liberty.

Today's liberals, especially the so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:

"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)

Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.

Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.

If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.

9 posted on 05/17/2010 2:07:01 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of voters nationwide believe the United States is the last best hope of mankind. Twenty-six percent (26%) are dope smoking fudge packing commies, and 24% are brain dead Oprah fans.


10 posted on 05/17/2010 2:11:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: loveliberty2
Amazing quote. T S Eliot, one of the truly prescient.

Thanks

11 posted on 05/17/2010 2:15:23 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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lemme guess...

The other choices were Gaia, Trancendental Meditation, and the United Federation of Planets?


12 posted on 05/17/2010 2:19:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I think most educated liberals are familiar with the classical liberal principles of our founding. The problem is they disagree with them. The problem is deeper than simple ignorance, I think.


13 posted on 05/17/2010 2:21:03 PM PDT by Yardstick
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“Twenty-six percent (26%) are dope smoking fudge packing commies, and 24% are brain dead Oprah fans.”

I am afraid you are right and unfortunately it’s true, not really laughable.


14 posted on 05/17/2010 2:21:38 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: combat_boots

Proving once again that Liberalism is a mental disease.


15 posted on 05/17/2010 2:25:11 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (S)
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To: SmartInsight
Later in the article: President Obama said that “instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

Words fail...

16 posted on 05/17/2010 2:26:35 PM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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Common people?! For liberals, the only hope for the universe is utopian...

You know like that place on that movie Avatar, I can't remember what it was called, but ask a liberal and they'll know.

That's also why they are dismanteling the space program so they can go to Mars and ruin things there, when the oceans dry up after the fish die...

This craziness is what the liberal mind believes.
17 posted on 05/17/2010 2:26:56 PM PDT by JimBobWay
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And this is the crux of the problem. When 49% of Americans are NOT sure we are the last best hope for the world, we are well and truly fekked. The communist propaganda brainwashing has met it’s goal.


18 posted on 05/17/2010 2:37:39 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."

This explains better than anything I've read the "progressive" mantras about "moving this country forward." They seem to be committed to a headlong rush toward . . . . some unseen, unknow tomorrow. It doesn't matter what lies there as long as they get there.

In some ways it's like the anxiety one may feel in a place where they don't feel comfortable. That must be what liberals experience all the time. Sadly, I don't think there's a cure for them.

19 posted on 05/17/2010 2:55:42 PM PDT by Oratam
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The intellectual elitists eschew liberty for what they perceive as a utopian order. In practice, they only provide misguided assistance to the fascists who may, if they’re fortunate, allow them to choose between a bullet and cyanide.


20 posted on 05/17/2010 3:02:46 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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