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Headlines : GovernmentRight Wing, Left Wing, Chicken Wing
At some point it says something about you if you allow these labels to stick. Either the left is not being very clear about the winning politics that it stands for, or else the word accurately describes a secret willingness to be constantly abused by bigots, a market niche full of bashful subscribers to Total Pussy Weekly. Because nothing else makes the American left look worse; it can’t even change your mind about its name, much less change the world.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from Alternet News
The Harris polling agency last week released the results of an interesting study. In a survey of 2,209 adults, they discovered that most Americans only have the vaguest idea of the meaning of two important pairs of words that play crucial roles in the national political discourse: conservative and liberal, and left and right.
Some of the numbers are surprising. According to the survey, 37 percent of Americans think liberals oppose gun control, or else they are not sure if liberals oppose gun control. Likewise, 27 percent of respondents thought a right-winger was someone who supported affirmative action. Furthermore, the survey showed that respondents generally viewed the paired concepts liberals and left-wingers and conservatives and right-wingers as possessing, respectively, generally similar political beliefs – with one caveat. In both cases, respondents were roughly 10 percent more clueless about left-wingers and right-wingers than they were about liberals and conservatives.
“The label left-winger is broadly perceived to be similar to liberal,” the agency concluded, “except that more people are not sure what it means.”
Respondents were asked to define the labels according to what their positions were on seven “political issues”: abortion rights, gun control, cutting taxes, gay rights, same-sex marriage, affirmative action and moral…
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What an amazing bunch of nothing.
Go to the dictionary, look up Liberal, Conservative, Left-wing and Right Wing, then try to apply the definitions to issues and people around you. You’ll quickly discover they’re nonsensical mental tools to segregate ideas and solidify ignorance.
Right Wing should be renamed to Bullshit Wing…
I didn’t get that far into this article because something caught my eye.
Can someone tell me if this means what it looks like:
Ok, I thought this could have been even lamer then it is but here are the actual numbers for that one, Fully 37 percent believe that liberals either oppose gun control (24%) or are not sure (13%)
Then again, the lameness and simplicity of this poll(and all polling really) shows through all over it, Fully 39 percent believe liberals favor cutting taxes, and 17 percent are not sure.
So, do they or don’t they?
The bias shows through, they couldn’t have been more specific, “do you believe liberals believe in cutting taxes for the middle and lower class?” and “How about the rich?” Even the pollers work on the presumptive propaganda that liberals are against cutting taxes. (for all?)
With such a lame either/or question, it is easy to see why people are so confused, and that added to the fact that such a high percentage of the population are functionally retarded, it is obvious why any poll’s figures might look quite strange.
Anyway, my point is this:This poll is lame, as are all polls, and all this article does is magnify the lameness.