Closer to 30% of people willing to participate in polls even. We have a media apparatus which platforms and empowers these people, but they are absolutely overrepresented in the national consciousness. Since we tend to recall these inflammatory voices more than the more common people mainly minding their own business wanting to live and let live, it can appear that half the country are psychopathic when there is not sufficient objective evidence to support that perception. I agree there are too many people in the Q anon camp and this group of religious fascists is causing all of us tons of problems, but most people are not that unreasonable.
That and you can be way more energetic living in a fantasy land in which you’re a hero than trying to realistically address the myriad issues which exist in the world which can be overwhelming and exhausting. We weren’t built for this.
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It’s closer to 30% I believe.
Closer to 30% of people willing to participate in polls even. We have a media apparatus which platforms and empowers these people, but they are absolutely overrepresented in the national consciousness. Since we tend to recall these inflammatory voices more than the more common people mainly minding their own business wanting to live and let live, it can appear that half the country are psychopathic when there is not sufficient objective evidence to support that perception. I agree there are too many people in the Q anon camp and this group of religious fascists is causing all of us tons of problems, but most people are not that unreasonable.
That and you can be way more energetic living in a fantasy land in which you’re a hero than trying to realistically address the myriad issues which exist in the world which can be overwhelming and exhausting. We weren’t built for this.