If anyone has ever seriously wondered how a highly developed, technologically advanced, 21st century western nation that is the leader of the free world could elect a convicted felon, serial adulterer, rapist, serial sexual assaulter, tax cheat, business fraudster, racist, and coup-plotter to a second term as POTUS, look no further than the results of this survey.
A 2022 study was performed where Americans were queried as to what they believe the percentage of specific groups of people in the US were in our population, and frankly, the replies left The Gadfly speechless at the extent of such a colossal disconnect from reality.
Check this out:
Apparently, Americans believe:
❌ That 20% of US households earn over $1 million per year. The actual number: less than 1%.
❌ That 21% of the US population is transgender. The actual number: around 1%.
❌ That 27% of the US population are Muslim. The actual number: around 1%.
❌ That 27% of US population are Native American. The actual number: around 1%.
❌ That 30% of Americans are Jewish. The actual number: around 2%.
❌ That 30% of Americans are gay or lesbian. The actual number: around 3%.
❌ That 36% of American workers are in a union. The actual number: around 4%.
❌ That 40% of Americans are black. The actual number: around 12%.
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What this tells me is a story of how it came to be that a whole lot of supremely ignorant Americans fell hook, line and sinker for the lies of Drumpf, his enablers and toadies, Trumpublicans in Congress, the right-wing media (propaganda) ecosphere, and the Russian ratfuckers spreading disinformation on social media, and managed to put a twice-impeached felon, rapist and traitor into the American people's White House a second time.
I mean think about it though. It stands to perfectly good reason that it wouldn't be very difficult for unscrupulous, deceitful, hidden agenda people to gaslight and con someone who is of the belief that 1 of every 5 of US households earns more than a million a year and that 40% of Americans are black, right? And now you know how MAGA was born.
A democracy cannot maintain it's health and viability very long when a sizable number of it's citizens are walking around in knowledge and fact-starved stupors to such an extent as this. We are sleepwalking as a country into an authoritarian idiocracy [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiocracy].
Link: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-have-one-very-strange-cognitive
--- TFG
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