Fake Republican Opinion Polls - Another Part of the Modern Republican Project?
This seems to be yet another part of the Republican project. Flood the zone with fake polls showing Republicans with a lot more support than they really do. This ends up creating its own reality because people are morons and like to support a winner and refuse to support a loser. People would support the Devil Himself and oppose Jesus Himself if they could be convinced that the Devil was the winner and Jesus was the Biggest Loser.
I think it’s mostly Americans who feel this way. Most other people seem to be more than happy to be on the wrong side of an issue. America is fairly unique in that voting is a popularity contest more than anything else and the hyper-individualism and competitiveness of American society means paradoxically that people support winners and oppose losers.
Maybe not so paradoxically as that is individualism in a nutshell right there. Anyway this is just the shitty way that we are. Faking numbers like this creates more realities by pushing Overton windows further and further to the Right. Once again all of this is conformism and US society is far more conformist than anyone wants to think, especially in terms of politics. In a society where you can be fired for any reason or for no reason, it might make sense to go along with the crowd. I’m spitballing here. I have no idea why we are like this. I’m just throwing up theories for facts I don’t understand.
It works another way too. The Republicans haven’t won a Presidential election since 1988. They stole 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024, and they tried to steal 2020. But looking at the news one would think the country’s going further and further Right with every election. And indeed of course the Republican Party does just that. They have an agenda after all and they would care less how much support they have.
They are just going to push it through anyway. As long as they can steal elections, they don’t have much reason to fear the public. Recent surveys have shown that we are now an oligarchy and politicians in our ultra-corrupt society respond only to money and not to people. The survey found that public opinion had about zero effect on public policy. In other words, whatever we think, it just doesn’t matter because we don’t have a democracy as our leaders don’t represent us. Instead they only represent big money interests.
The massive Medicaid cuts the Republican bill has is opposed by 74% of the population. They have only 26% for that crap. Yet they all went ahead and voted for it anyway. See? They don’t care. They’ll vote for something even if 75% of the population is against it. They can get away with it because in the US, even if 75% oppose one of the most important issues of our time, a majority of the country will nevertheless march right off and vote for that party that pushed that issue that they so opposed. So, as long as Americans are such senseless idiots, Republicans can get away with all of their monstrosities.
Partly it is because they think they will never have to pay the piper and part of it is just the arrogance of the rich and parties of the rich. They are always absolutely relentless and pay zero heed to public opinion. They all always hate democracy and the rule of people and the law by their nature because the rich hate all of these things. They have an agenda of the rich and the rich, like charging rhinos, just keep charging forward with the same agenda of the rich no matter how many times they lose.
They just reframe it, lie a lot more or in different ways and then push it again, maybe even harder this time. If that doesn’t work, they mix it up and push it again. You don’t see this in most other countries because most nations are not under the rule of the rich.
I can understand corpocratically-inclined and extreme-wealth Americans supporting Trump’s soulless — hell, completely un-Christlike — BB Bill. But there are so many voters and elected Republicans who claim to be Christian yet defend, or at least are noticeably quiet about, the bill despite its ultimate cutting of access to health services and food aid/supports for the poorest Americans.
Jesus Christ was about compassion, charity and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous resources, especially in the midst of great poverty. Yet, this is not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who idolize callous politicians standing for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.
Prominent actually-Christlike Christian leaders/voices should often strongly-emphasize what Jesus fundamentally taught and demonstrated to his followers. However strange that sounds, institutional Christianity seems to need continuous reminding. They all should consider that the Biblical Jesus would not have rolled his eyes and sighed: ‘Oh, well. I’m against what the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more his political competition?’
It seems to me that America is well on its way to being damned; never mind it somehow being God-blessed: Seriously, some of the best humanitarians that I, as a big fan of Christ’s unmistakable miracles and fundamental message, have met or heard about were/are atheists or agnostics who, quite ironically, would make better examples of many of Christ’s teachings/practices than too many ‘Christians’. Conversely, some of the worst human(e) beings I’ve met or heard about are the most devout believers/preachers of fundamental Biblical theology.
It’s bad enough for the Donald Trump government to cut whatever minimal government support there is for poor people, especially children, lacking food and/or those without access to privately insured health care. But to do so in large part to redirect those funds via tax cuts to the superfluously very wealthy — including those who have no need for more money, and likely never will — is plain immoral.
The money will mostly go towards an attempt to satiate the bottomless-pit greed of unlimited-growth capitalism and hoarded wealth. It’s morbidly shameful conduct by a supposedly Christian nation’s government, which is largely politically supported by institutional ‘Christianity’ in America.