• markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Bear in mind, in these polls “Republicans” only comprise less than a third of the overall population. In the US it’s about equal proportions of “Republican,” “Democrat,” and “Unaffiliated” and only about 2/3 of the US population actually votes. Therefore, when you see "38% of Republicans believe XYZ, you may think that’s 19% of the total US population, but in reality it’s only about 12%. Still high, but consider that about 20% of the adult population can’t accurately answer the question "does the earth rotate around the sun, or does the sun rotate around the earth "

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      They’re not. Not really.

      They know the government is hiding information and they support it, but the party line on the issue is that this is the most transparent government in history and so they give the “correct” answer as party loyalists. It’s like Nazis saying they don’t believe the Holocaust happened. They totally do! They just know that the “correct” answer, the party line, is to deny the Holocaust.

      They’re not stupid. They’re evil.

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      Well, of that 38%, probably 8% are undecided. That leaves 30%. Of that 30, as someone else mentioned, some of those are sheeple from religious stuff. The rest? They’re literally holding up Swastikas and chant “Jews will not replace us”. Maybe not all of them are supporters of the Nazi party. Some are probably just klansmen.

      You’re basically looking at the evil underbelly of America. You know, Republicans.

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      Religion teaches you not to question things that don’t make logical sense, he preys on those religious folks.