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Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by foepys »

mc32 wrote: post #18
brightball wrote: post #6

Why wouldn’t you be? The way that people react these days is so all over the place that it’s a no win situation unless you’re talking about financial/economic policy.

Attitudes and politics change with new generations. It's hard to change the way people already think. So this is a reflection of people not agreeing with the external pressure to conform to new thinking. That's not to say that you cannot convince people of new attitudes, so long as you appeal to their already held belief systems (LGBT rights, for example, animal cruelty, etc), but you cannot ram your beliefs down som…

That's way too simplistic. Many QAnon supporters are relatively young and don't conform to the typical "boomer" stereotype.

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Post by emmelaich »

bob33212 wrote: post #14

Americans have always held a very wide range of political views. Just 16 years ago Bush was running on the idea of adding a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Obviously there were people at that time who thought it was evil to treat gay people like that. And others thought it was sinful to be gay. The only change now is that social media is showing each side the worst content from the other side getting t…

All major political leaders were against gay marriage at some point. The Clintons, Obama, Biden, etc.

As for GWB ....

> George W. Bush's Forgotten Gay-Rights History > He defied his party by endorsing civil unions in 2004. (But that same year, he backed a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/george-...

Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by peteretep »

rtkaratekid wrote: post #26
runawaybottle wrote: post #13

Young Americans are also more likely than older Americans to support punishing people at work for personal donations to Trump. Forty‐ four percent (44%) of Americans under 30 support firing executives if they donate to Trump. This share declines to 22% among those over 55 years old—a 20‐ point difference. An age gap also exists for Biden donors, but is less pronounced. Twenty‐ seven percent (27%) of Americans under 3…

Holy hell, I dislike certain politicians as much as the next guy, but punishing people at work for making donations is absolutely ludicrous. Do you have a link to where you got this data?

It’s from the article O_o

Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by Fumtumi »

dnsld wrote: post #12

we're posting Cato Institute links now?

I was not aware of 'Cato' before but its amusing that an Philantropist is a Liberatist.

Or if you think about it, of course you need much more Philantropists when you have Liberatism :D

Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by Zenst »

TMWNN wrote: post #8

The final Democracy Institute poll ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1354506/us-election-202... ) that came out Saturday predicts a Trump victory contrary to most other polls, because it found that 79% of Trump voters do not tell others that they support him, while only 21% of Biden voters are shy. USC's poll predicts a Biden victory, but when experimental questions are asked to figure out how those polled reall…

Well, polls are IMHO not good, betting odds are better I have found, for example the last UK general election the bettering odds had conservatists to win. Yet if you looked at Twitter or Facebook, you would be convinced Labour would win with complete dominance in posts upon those platforms. That day I learned that social media is not representative of the populous at large and only a slanted snapshot and polls are equally not that great. See with polls - people lie, why - many reasons, some tactical, some not bothers and some just to avoid confrontation from easily agitated oppositional types.

AS for America - last visit I made was over a decade ago but I learned to avoid political debate with a passion as people don't do debate and more argue you to death. Even then in the office had a chap come in and almost interrogated me upon political views, even worrying was others warned me of that and I dismissed them. You live you learn and I've found that the older people are - the more they are inclined to avoid such debates as they more often than not become toxic.

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Post by factorialboy »

My company got spammed by Expensify CEOs political views. Some non Americans complained about receiving the irrelevant email.

Some Americans were targeting even that. Apparently foreigners have no right to NOT RECEIVE political endorsements that mirrors their political views.

Your politics is too toxic. Sorry but it has to be said.

Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by thesuperbigfrog »

082349872349872 wrote: post #19
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not destruction of the middle ground, but rather hiding of the middle ground. Moderates do not feel safe to express moderate views for fear of being ostracized and cancelled.

It must be kind of difficult to have representation for moderate views when they only have two political parties.

Exactly. The US needs more mainstream political parties.

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Post by shin_lao »

brightball wrote: post #6

Why wouldn’t you be? The way that people react these days is so all over the place that it’s a no win situation unless you’re talking about financial/economic policy.

Even financial/economic policies are very difficult to discuss openly.

Re: Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

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Post by Fumtumi »

rtkaratekid wrote: post #26
runawaybottle wrote: post #13

Young Americans are also more likely than older Americans to support punishing people at work for personal donations to Trump. Forty‐ four percent (44%) of Americans under 30 support firing executives if they donate to Trump. This share declines to 22% among those over 55 years old—a 20‐ point difference. An age gap also exists for Biden donors, but is less pronounced. Twenty‐ seven percent (27%) of Americans under 3…

Holy hell, I dislike certain politicians as much as the next guy, but punishing people at work for making donations is absolutely ludicrous. Do you have a link to where you got this data?

And its also just a suggestive question.
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