Donald Trump can suck our collective dicks

[Pamela]

He is not one of my favorite people, especially when he refers to transwomen as "mutilated men". However, he IS a major contributor to the National Review, News Machete and American Thinker.

All in all, I never pay attention to polls. They are too easily skewed and usually are wrong anyway. It's far too early to be calling the election, or eulogizing any candidates, IMHO

[tw]

Originally Posted by Pamela

All in all, I never pay attention to polls. They are too easily skewed and usually are wrong anyway.

Polls are not wrong. Polls are completely right. Wrong are so many who have opinions. Will completely change their opinions only in months and then deny that had been so easily manipulated.

Are polls measuring the people's logical thoughts? Of course not. A majority of adults think like children - conclude only from their emotions. For the same reason a majority in all nations also knew, beyond doubt, that smoking cigarettes increased health. They knew only because advertising and hearsay so easily manipulated their feelings. Facts be damned.

Polls were also right: well over 60% of Americans knew beyond a doubt that smoking cigarettes increased health. The polls were not wrong. People were.

One need only watch how Joseph McCarthy, Adolph Hitler, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz all got power and supporters. None (in this post) are good or bad. They just are - nothing more.

Many supporters even say Trump is wrong - as demonstrated in that previously cited NPR focus group. And still highly approve of Trump only because Trump (and his lies) inspire emotion. Most adults want to feel - don't want to know. That is both how and why demagogues gain power.

Polls are not wrong. If anything is wrong, it is why some many people approve of inferior leaders. Polls only demonstrate the actual problem.