AbsolutSurgen Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 BONOKOSKI: 1 in 6 believes U.S. run by Satan-worshipping pedophiles TORONTOSUN.COM Recent survey paints a troubling picture of Americans increasingly becoming unhinged from reality Quote A stunning survey in the United States shows that democracy in America may have been spooked and maimed as extreme right-wing opinion gathers more steam. Three in 10 Americans, for example, still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, including two-thirds of Republicans and 82% of those who trust Fox News more than any other media outlet. The number increases to a 97% among those who trust far-right outlets like the One America News Network and Newsmax. One in five Americans also believe in the core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy that “there is a storm coming,” while one in six believe the United States government is controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking ring. One is six! The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, and first reported in The Hill , paints a troubling portrait of a growing segment of the public that is increasingly unmoored from reality, embracing conspiracy theories about child abduction and stolen elections. It found “a deep divide between those who trust right-wing media outlets and the rest of the nation — and even a divide between those who trust Fox News and those who trust outlets like One America News Network and Newsmax .” The same portion who believe in those Satan-worshiping pedophiles say they agree with the statement that America has gotten so far off-track that “true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” The poll found 30% of Republicans agree that violence might be warranted, compared with 17% of independents and 11% of Democrats. “I’m not an alarmist by nature, but I’m deeply disturbed by these numbers,” Robert Jones, the founder and chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute, told The Hill. “I think that we really have to take them seriously as a threat to democracy,” If there was any example needed to show the growing disrespect for government, it was the violent storming of the Capitol building and the mission to somehow string Vice President Mike Pence from the rafters. The rising acceptance of political violence is being played out in courtrooms across the country. One man who plotted to kidnap Michigan’s governor was sentenced to six years in jail in August. Last Thursday, two members of a neo-Nazi group — one of them a Canadian — were sentenced to nine years in prison for a scheme to attack a rally of gun control supporters in Richmond, Va. John Pitney, a former top official at the Republican National Committee during George H.W. Bush’s presidency, told The Hill the data “reflected a wholesale reinvention of a Republican Party that once aspired to Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill. “Back in the 1980s, Republicans aspired to be the party of hope and opportunity. Now it is the party of blood and soil,” said Pitney. “The culture war is front and centre, and for many Republicans, it is close to being a literal war, not just a metaphorical one. “Republicans have a nostalgia for an America that never really existed.” More than half of Republicans, in fact, said things have changed so much in America that they often feel like a stranger in their own country, More than half of Americans, including 55% of independent voters, say the Republican Party today has been taken over by racists, while 44% said the Democratic Party had been taken over by socialists. Bottom line, America is in a political mess. Canadians watching US politics: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bacon Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 *Religion-worshipping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 11 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Back in the 1980s, Republicans aspired to be the party of hope and opportunity. Now it is the party of blood and soil,” said Pitney. Lmao revisionism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 I feel like I'm a sigh in corporeal form Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 19 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: BONOKOSKI: 1 in 6 believes U.S. run by Satan-worshipping pedophiles TORONTOSUN.COM Recent survey paints a troubling picture of Americans increasingly becoming unhinged from reality Canadians watching US politics: Oh, you're just gonna love the cross-border collateral damage if/when things REALLY do go pear-shaped here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 21 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Oh, you're just gonna love the cross-border collateral damage if/when things REALLY do go pear-shaped here! Shit, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will jump on the fucking bandwagon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 It seems now is the right time to start selling "Devilish Daycare" t-shirts! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 34 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Oh, you're just gonna love the cross-border collateral damage if/when things REALLY do go pear-shaped here! Where we go one… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Well, u kinda actually were not long ago 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Oh, you're just gonna love the cross-border collateral damage if/when things REALLY do go pear-shaped here! Doug Ford? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 34 minutes ago, Jason said: Doug Ford? But really. Even crazy Doug ford is pro vax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 41 minutes ago, Jason said: Doug Ford? Doug Ford is a doofus -- but he's not really right wing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 American evangelicals man. The only way their life makes sense is if they can view themselves as a hero in a fight between good and evil. They truly believe that they are holy warriors, holding the line against the encroaching darkness. Conspiracy theories have always walked hand in hand with American Protestantism, and this is just taking it to the next level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Didn't read the article (Making @b_m_b_m_b_m proud) but the topic is about Republicans being the Satan worshiping pedos right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 And these are the ones that like to refer to others as "Sheep" or "Sheeple." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 My biggest concern is that the right these days is built on projection and that makes me wildly fearful McConnell sustains himself on nothing but contrarian hate and newborn blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said: My biggest concern is that the right these days is built on projection and that makes me wildly fearful McConnell sustains himself on nothing but contrarian hate and newborn blood. Liberal tears sustain him. He is IRL Darth Sion. Hate keeping a body that by all counts should be dead alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Returning to my thesis from the gerrymandering thread, reporters who covered the Yugoslav wars have written about how middle-class Serbs would see reports on CNN about Serbian militias gang-raping Kosovar Albanians and declare that they were fake. Milosevic would then get on tv and reinforce their denial. Seeing the way the history of the January 6 riot at the capital has been rewritten, I’m not that far from believing that if a bunch of Trump supporters gang-raped a ton of college-educated liberals while chanting ‘in the name of Trump!’ and it was all caught on live tv, the populist right wing (and surely a re-elected Trump) would dismiss it as ‘fake news.’ Or at least invent some conspiracy about how it was all staged by Democrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Does anyone here know where these surveys come from or how you can take them? When I see a headline like "1 in 6 Americans believe this", I'm always wondering how many people get involved in the survey, where they are being given, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said: Does anyone here know where these surveys come from or how you can take them? When I see a headline like "1 in 6 Americans believe this", I'm always wondering how many people get involved in the survey, where they are being given, etc... PRRI WWW.PRRI.ORG Fifteen percent of Americans agree with the key allegation of QAnon. Quote The survey was designed and conducted by PRRI and IFYC among a random sample of 5,149 adults (age 18 and up) living in all 50 states in the United States and who are part of Ipsos’s Knowledge Panel and an additional 476 who were recruited by Ipsos using opt-in survey panels to increase the sample sizes in smaller states. The full sample is weighted to be representative of the U.S. population. Interviews were conducted online between March 8 and 30, 2021. Respondents are recruited to the KnowledgePanel using an addressed-based sampling methodology from the Delivery Sequence File of the USPS – a database with full coverage of all delivery addresses in the U.S. As such, it covers all households regardless of their phone status, providing a representative online sample. Unlike opt-in panels, households are not permitted to “self-select” into the panel; and are generally limited to how many surveys they can take within a given time period. The initial sample drawn from the KnowledgePanel was adjusted using pre-stratification weights so that it approximates the adult U.S. population defined by the latest March supplement of the Current Population Survey. Next, a probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling scheme was used to select a representative sample. To reduce the effects of any non-response bias, a post-stratification adjustment was applied based on demographic distributions from the most recent American Community Survey (ACS). The post-stratification weight rebalanced the sample based on the following benchmarks: age, race and ethnicity, gender, Census division, metro area, education, and income. The sample weighting was accomplished using an iterative proportional fitting (IFP) process that simultaneously balances the distributions of all variables. Weights were trimmed to prevent individual interviews from having too much influence on the final results. In addition to an overall national weight, separate weights were computed for each state to ensure that the demographic characteristics of the sample closely approximate the demographic characteristics of the target populations. The state-level post-stratification weights rebalanced the sample based on the following benchmarks: age, race and ethnicity, gender, education, and income. These weights from the KnowledgePanel cases were then used as the benchmarks for the additional opt-in sample in a process called “calibration.” This calibration process is used to correct for inherent biases associated with nonprobability opt-in panels. The calibration methodology aims to realign respondents from nonprobability samples with respect to a multidimensional set of measures to improve their representation. The margin of error for the national survey is +/- 1.5 percentage points at the 95% level of confidence, including the design effect for the survey of 1.4. In addition to sampling error, surveys may also be subject to error or bias due to question wording, context, and order effects. Additional details about the KnowledgePanel can be found on the Ipsos website: Always better when I make sure I'm posting the right link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 52 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said: Does anyone here know where these surveys come from or how you can take them? When I see a headline like "1 in 6 Americans believe this", I'm always wondering how many people get involved in the survey, where they are being given, etc... These surveys are normally done by a polling company, typically paid for by a company/special interest group/etc. Most surveys are now done using internet survey groups, which you can join. I believe this one is run by Ipsos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Too bad it's not 1/666. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Joke’s on them. The country is actually being run by Satan, who worships pedophiles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, TheLeon said: Joke’s on them. The country is actually being run by Satan, who worships pedophiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 The rono sun posting about their biggest hard-on? You'd figure they'd be more impassioned than the article, but laughing at America always comes first I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 lol, this typo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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