It’s actually a sign you are an incomprehensible fucker who has no business being a citizen of this country or maybe this planet?
Yeah, I like that Trumpsters and far-right have publicly disowned the Statue of Liberty to the point that it offends them. The left should start using the US flag in all their imagery.
Nesrie
4928
Oh wow, it’s really the statue. I don’t… get it.
KevinC
4929
The statue is pro-immigration, thus it’s anti-Trump and an attack on Trumpsters. This is according to the sludge oozing out of that guy’s twitter feed.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“Look at this libtard and her SJW agenda. Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall!”
KevinC
4931
I’ll just quote Urban Dictionary.
Motherfuckers.
We held multiple national elections in the middle of the American Civil War.
Meanwhile:
“Armando, stop saying such terrible things about Republican voters! It’s the politicians who are bad!”
Hmmmmmmmmmm
The Atlantic actually took a good look at that poll.
These weaknesses are not confined to Republican voters. The delayed-election result feeds the prejudices of progressives whose reaction to Trump is the potent cocktail of ridicule (those idiots!) and terror (those idiots are in charge!). But Democrats have sometimes expressed equally worrying views in polls. In the summer of 2016, for example, a pollster found that two-thirds of Democratic voters would trade an unconstitutional third term for Obama if it meant avoiding either Clinton or Bush. Perhaps you think, They must have been joking, and would never have followed through. But that’s just the point: What happens in polling often stays in polling.
A better way to think about the delayed-election poll is in a broader context of eroding democratic norms. For the last few months, since shortly before the election, the Harvard lecturer Yascha Mounk has been publicly warning that voter support for bedrock principles of democracy is waning, both in the U.S. and overseas. “Polls suggest the American public has never been as skeptical of democracy or as open to authoritarian alternatives like military rule as it is right now,” Mounk wrote in October.
That’s particularly true among younger people, the cohort that will gradually make up a larger and larger share of the population. Fewer of them think it’s very important to live in a democracy. About a quarter of young Americans say democracy is a “bad” way to run a government. They’re more open to a strong, authoritarian leader. There’s other evidence of this tendency in other places. A 2015 Pew Poll found that 40 percent of Millennials think censorship of offensive views would be acceptable.
I am really hopeful that number shifts after Trump’s time in office, assuming we survive it.
Oh, they’re ‘more open’ to it, are they? Well la de fucking da.
Did every school just stop teaching civics, or something?
Dude, most schools have stopped teaching just about everything at this point. That’s a big part of the problem.
Nesrie
4939
It’s also what the Right wanted, only the basics, don’t you dear teach my kids anything but reading, math and how to get a job. Science used to be in that list but now they only pull it out when it’s convenient to attack some policy they think is against them.
I mean, even the most cursory knowledge of history, like that attained by watching certain Spielberg movies, ought to expose some of the flaws in that particular suite of ideas.
Timex
4942
We’ve seen this school of thought on this forum, multiple times.
Scuzz
4943
I don’t know what younger people you know to base that on but none of the young people I know think like that. I have 2 20 something daughters and believe me them and their friends are much more politically aware than I was at their age.
Now do they always know what they are talking about…of course not. :)
I’ll go with the conclusions from the researchers.
One of the most striking figures from our work, which will soon be published in the Journal of Democracy, shows that younger generations in long-standing democracies are much less likely to consider it “essential” to live in a democracy than earlier cohorts.
Young citizens today are more skeptical of democracy than their parents were at the same age. As we pointed out in an earlier article for Journal of Democracy, published this July, this trend is especially striking in the United States, where an illiberal “cohort shift” is evident over time, and across a range of survey items. The next chart, for example, compares the number of Americans of different generations stating that it would be a “fairly good” or “very good” idea to have “a strong leader” rather than “parliament and elections” in 1995 and in 2011. Younger cohorts are simply more likely to agree with this anti-democratic point of view. In the last survey, almost half of millennials expressed approval for a “strong leader”.
