Posted on 02/25/2024 7:36:57 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
When conducting general surveys, Mr. Rasmussen noticed that most people expressing extreme leftist views share three characteristics: (1) They are very urban, (2) they hold postgraduate university degrees, and (3) they are relatively wealthy. People meeting all these criteria make up about one percent of the general population.
Anyway, Mr. Rasmussen decided to poll a national sample of these people: urbanites with post-grad degrees who had income of more than $150,000 per year.
He found that their economic situations and political views are remote from those of most Americans. While most Americans have been suffering hardship during the Biden years, the one percent has been prospering. While most Americans are concerned about inflation, illegal immigration, and border security, the one percent couldn’t care less.
Mr. Rasmussen also uncovered just how unsympathetic to American ideals this group is and how authoritarian it is:
Nearly half of the elite group say Americans have too much freedom. Over seventy percent trust government to do the right thing most of the time. (What planet are they living on?) Over three quarters want to restrict your right to eat meat and use electricity. Nearly three-quarters want to abolish your right to have a gasoline-powered car. Nearly 70% would deprive you of your right to choose a gas stove. More than two-thirds favor letting teachers (who usually are government employees) dictate to parents what children should be taught. Decisive majorities would take away our SUVs, air conditioning, and any air travel they deem “non-essential.” Nearly a third of these people are focused on politics—and the views of that third are even more alarming. For example, 69 percent of them said they would rather cheat on an election than lose one! (The comparable figure among all citizens is only 7 percent.)
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Antonio Gramsci predates them by more than half a century and his “war on position” delineates almost exactly what is currently taking place.
For the uninitiated: The Italian communist is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the Cultural Marxist movement in modern America.
The “the long march through the institutions,” to subvert Western culture from the inside in an attempt to compel it to redefine itself.
Who’s to blame?
The indolent self-serving American people...
“69 percent of them said they would rather cheat on an election than lose one!”
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That one’s the kicker. When you go down that road, you no longer have a free society where “We the People” rule. That stat is very alarming.
But are these folks truly trying to take our air conditioning away? Would they deprive someone of A/C who lives in the sweltering summer heat of Georgia? I don’t think so.
So the survey questions they asked are not specific enough, so the findings are of limited value — except for Rasmussen’s publicity. But I now I question Rasmussen’s judgement.
The only guy I really trust in the polling business is the People’s Pundit.
Mt. Lebanon, suburb of Pittsburgh - I know it well.
No. 69% admitted that. A much higher percent feel that way, they just won't admit it.
The one question they don’t dare ask...how many of those extreme leftists belong to masonic/Illuminati style associations or lodges?
Trump is destroying “our democracy”
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bkmk
When white liberal 'elites' say, “our democracy” it feel like Gollum saying "my precious" in Lord of the Rings'. Creepy creepy...
We didn’t listen to Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan.
Consider throwing these elitist bastards in prison, without trial, confiscate all of their wealth, and applying it to the national debt.
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