Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes āfrustrating,ā system.
Why would people want to live under an authoritarianās thumb? Itās rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityāreal or perceivedāand a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupāespecially if it is the ārightā group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, āHeās not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā
You can pretty much ask almost any insane thing and it somehow always comes out to at least 30% of Americans.
I sometimes wonder if itād always the same 30% and there just 30% idiots, or if that 30% spans multiple topics and groups of idiots and its actually higher like 60%
30% of Americans think that feet and legs should be removed and made illegal
Thats why they named it head and shoulders, the anti bottom torso movement scared them off.
I wonder if itās something like 25% of survey respondents are just picking the most outrageous thing and 5% actually believe that way. I remember a while ago on a survey about being ok with political violence, they tried to control for that kind of thing and it dropped the numbers a lot.