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March 22, 2022
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We all like to think, or at least hope, that likely voters are the best informed voters. But a shocking new CSPAN poll of likely voters may shake our faith.

https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2022/03/22/new-poll-on-the-supreme-court-confirms-americans-are-absolute-dummies-n539138

It found that 44% of respondents didn’t know that the three branches of government were co-equal. Nearly half (46%) think the SCOTUS is a partisan institution (granted, they might have a point, at least unofficially.) 61% claimed they were closely following Biden’s SCOTUS nominee, but 72% have no idea who it is, and 85% didn’t know she’s a black female, which was Biden’s #1 criteria for choosing a nominee. And while Roe v. Wade was the best-known SCOTUS decision, only 6% knew Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark ruling that ended segregation in schools.

But that’s not the only poll that reflects badly on the public’s grasp of important information. A YouGov America survey found that people must assume that the louder a voice a group has in the media, the larger it is, which ain’t necessarily so.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/03/18/when-it-comes-to-estimating-the-size-of-minority-groups-americans-fail-miserably-n2604722

Asked to estimate the size of various groups, on average, respondents thought that 21% of the US population is transgender (it’s actually 1%), that 26% make over a million dollars a year (in reality, less than 1%), that 27% are Muslim (1%), 27% are Native American (1%), 30% are Jewish (2%), 30% are gay or lesbian (3%), 33% are atheist (3%), and that 41% of Americans are black (actually 12%.) Although it’s possible that 41% of people currently in TV commercials are black.

Again, this is a great example of the premise of Dr. Todd Rose’s book “Collective Illusions,” that so much of what people believe is based on misconceptions and falsehoods, many of them promulgated by groups with an agenda that are trying to sound bigger and more powerful than they really are. And the way they keep those illusions alive is by scaring people out of questioning them.

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  • Pamela Thompson Lefkowitz

    03/22/2022 11:26 PM

    I've been praying and will continue to pray that only God's choice will be added to the Supreme Court and that the current candidate won't because she does not honor God and does not believe in the constitution.

  • Russell T Cooper

    03/22/2022 03:18 PM

    It appears to me that more like 90% of people in TV commercials are black, mixed race couples, bi-racial, gay, lesbian, same-sex couples or transgender. You don't see a white heterosexual couple in any of the commercials these days.

  • Darlene F. Donston

    03/22/2022 03:10 PM

    Doesn't that make us look REALLY STUPID as a Country?? No wonder we are in the shape we are in. We are always saying, how come so many Commercials are made with the Black Population because it looks as if this Country has fewer than a dozen Whites and that is not true at all. What needs to be done is get rid of our Media as it has been run by the Democrats for years and years and has brainwashed most of the people. I believe the news from the U.K. is much better and truer than what we have here!