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Makes me wonder what that 27% is smoking and even that 29%.
But I will say for once this number is less than the 30-something percent of true believers, maybe some cracks in the MAGA faithcism? One can hope that there is a line… I’d would’ve hoped the Epstein files would have been that but here we are.
I'd like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with... and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we'd get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.
In the US 21% of American adults are illiterate. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics
I wonder how many of the illiterate are Republicans.
We could never break our ties with Narnia! They're our strongest allies in the Magic Kingdoms!
According to this poll
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/majority-of-americans-oppose-military-action-in-iran-new-poll-finds
~80% of republicans support the decision, which would be roughly 30% of the US population, so I don't think Trump is all that worried.
Half of them are truly evil people who want to bomb and kill everything and the other half are people who can't understand what's going on because they literally can't read. After I learned that the persistent 30% that has an objectively terrible opinion on everything started making a lot more sense. Long story short take the kids in your life to libraries and that might start to fix things
This was a tipping point for one of my friends. He leans far right and we've basically refused to talk politics because it never ends well. He came out and acknowledged this is fucking bad and trump is going to ruin both countries here.
I was stunned. Cracks are forming