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What a ridiculous headline. The Washington Post should be ashamed of themselves: Americans — especially but not exclusively Trump voters — believe crazy, wrong

What a ridiculous headline. The Washington Post should be ashamed of themselves: Americans — especially but not exclusively Trump voters — believe crazy, wrong things The article is clearly selecting statistics that would make Trump-voters look worse overall, only including one where Clinton-voters are more likely to believe the falsehood (that Russia likely hacked the actual election). Just to name a few, I suspect the Clinton voters are more likely to believe these falsehoods: that women make 70-some cents on the dollar for equal work, that nuclear power cannot be safe, that police disproportionately use lethal force against black Americans.

fulafel 10y ago
Your example issues from the other side are not crazy. They are in the the domain of reasonable political discourse, unlike pizzagate and the birther stuff.
- marcoperaza 10y ago
  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/bush_administration/22_believe_bush_knew_about_9_11_attacks_in_advance http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/curr... >Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure. Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks.
nv-vn 10y ago
Agreed. Regardless of your opinions about the election/politics, it's quite clear that people on both sides hold the same kinds of false/ridiculous beliefs. Just the other night at a restaurant I had the pleasure of overhearing the conversation from a table next to mine. This group of people was discussing how "Black people are lazy and would rather sit around and do drugs than get a job." And within the same breath they mentioned how glad they were they voted for Clinton instead of Trump. I'm sure that with very little work, someone could create statistics showing the reverse effect of this article. The fact that their cherrypicked selection of fake news is all about anti-Clinton things makes it no real surprise that Trump voters agreed with it. If it was anti-Trump, Clinton voters would agree with it. Trying to make any sort of "finding" out of this information is a load of bullshit, but people will eat it up because it confirms their beliefs.

fulafel 10y ago

Your example issues from the other side are not crazy. They are in the the domain of reasonable political discourse, unlike pizzagate and the birther stuff.

marcoperaza 10y ago
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/bush_administration/22_believe_bush_knew_about_9_11_attacks_in_advance http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/curr... >Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure. Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks.

nv-vn 10y ago

Agreed. Regardless of your opinions about the election/politics, it's quite clear that people on both sides hold the same kinds of false/ridiculous beliefs. Just the other night at a restaurant I had the pleasure of overhearing the conversation from a table next to mine. This group of people was discussing how "Black people are lazy and would rather sit around and do drugs than get a job." And within the same breath they mentioned how glad they were they voted for Clinton instead of Trump. I'm sure that with very little work, someone could create statistics showing the reverse effect of this article. The fact that their cherrypicked selection of fake news is all about anti-Clinton things makes it no real surprise that Trump voters agreed with it. If it was anti-Trump, Clinton voters would agree with it. Trying to make any sort of "finding" out of this information is a load of bullshit, but people will eat it up because it confirms their beliefs.