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this!^^ i keep telling my tech friends and even non tech higher educated alternative thinking crowd that they are in no way representative for the general publ
by rjzzleep 13y ago
this!^^
i keep telling my tech friends and even non tech higher educated alternative thinking crowd that they are in no way representative for the general public. they always look at me completely astonished.
there is an interesting quote from a bush advisor. i don't know what it was exactly. but the gist of it was that people against bush are outnumbered 2 to 1. every time we make fun of his stupid english the general public identified themselves more with him.
- rquantz 13y agoI haven't seen numbers about Snowden's approval, but the Bush advisor's statement was factually inaccurate for most of his second term.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> i don't know what it was exactly. but the gist of it was that people against bush are outnumbered 2 to 1. Actual polls showed that, late in his presidency, that was pretty much the opposite of the truth: Bush supporters were outnumbered 2:1. Bush's approval was weak prior to 9/11, shut up to about 90% in a rally-around-the-flag response in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and then declined pretty steadily from there, with a brief positive bump at the outset of the Iraq War. Bush wasn't popular because people made fun of his use of English, he was popular pretty much exclusively to the extent that he was able to use circumstances to conflate in popular consciousness opposition to his leadership with opposition to America as a nation in a time of war.