"Unsure: 19%"
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I have to wonder, this has to be a uniquely American problem, right? I mean, the sheer quantities of stupidity in our society? Somehow I feel like I gotta hold onto hope people are like this just because of "a poor education system" or "propaganda" or "leaded gas" etc and it's not just innate human nature for a portion of the population to be so goddamn stupid.
Sadly there weren't polls to observe during previous dictatorship takeovers. None, that I know of. So to be able to gauge the stats of stupidity in Nicaragua or Germany during the world war isn't possible. But I guess we can at least look at the accounts from the people of that time. I have a sinking suspicion that the human species is genuinely just this stupid, though. I'm in process of reading the book, "They Thought They Were Free" and "Before the Revolution" and it seems people are genuinely just very simple. Sorry, friend.
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How hard could it be? You go into a voting booth, look at the ballot, see Donald Trumps name and pick the other one. It was literally that simple, yat half of Americans fucked that up.
Half of voting americans.
Only 20% of the country voted for him (77mil votes out of 330mil pop) or 49% of people who voted (77mil out of 156mil) so statistically I guess that 27% accounts for people who voted for fascism.
A bunch of them think the crisis is we haven't done enough fascism yet.
Some amount of those may believe the crisis is that the Constitution itself needs to be ignored or rewritten, because they heard so on right wing media. The ladder-pullers who believe birthright citizenship needs to go, alongside those who now desire a king rather than our backsliding and slightly less corrupt system of checks and balances.