Re: Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 15:25:49 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > NPR/Ipsos poll
 > 
 > https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/seven-ten-americans-say-country-crisis-risk-failing

I'm really surprised how much I agree with the majority opinions.  I like
how there was unanimity about the veracity of these two statements:

 Traditional parties and politicians don't care about people like me
 The American economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful

I was trying to understand what "America is in crisis and at risk of
failing".  By the fact that a whopping 17% answered "I don't know" makes
me think many others were also confused.

How did this poll manage to find 33% of Americans who did not vote at all
in the last presidential election?  Also, how did they find 14% of people
who do not use any sources of media for their news??  Do these people just
never watch the news?  (Maybe I should strive to be more like them?)  And
20% of them never or almost never watch political news?

BTW, breaking results down by party is pretty stupid because there are
twice as many democrats than republicans in this country.  So, you'd have
to multiply any democratic result by 50% and reduce any republican results
by 33%.  I only looked at the combined results since those should be the
most accurate.

This poll was entirely conducted online.  That means that it would be very
unlikely that people like me would have ever ended up in this poll.  At
least they made the effort to normalize the data based on the U.S. census.