oh yay another ineffective 3rd party to dilute the votes
Now try and get the majority to agree on what anything in this list means
i'm still trying to wrap my head around the irony of forming a party against parties.
BE. INDEPENDENT. fuck, do the research. America's government was supposed to be against such things.
Only 69% support gay marriage? That's wild.
Nice
I mean the 69, not the 31% bigots
IIRC interracial marriage didn't get more than 50% support until the late 90s. In general public support lags behind progressive lawmaking.
That in addition to more 'nuanced' opinions on it. Does "Sure 'they' can do whatever they want, but none of my children are allowed!" count as support or not? It probably gets counted as support/opposition depending on what the poll asker wants, if they even get that granular.
I agree with all except not owning a gun. I’m not a 2A’er, but legal and responsible gun ownership is one of our constitutional rights. The problems we have with guns right now fall directly into gun control territory, which is listed right below owning a gun on this list.
The militias are not well-regulated.
Yeah, I would be very careful how they word any mention of guns. It's very easy to get people arguing past each other even when they share very similar views, thanks to how groups like the NRA have mucked up 2A discourse.
If only people felt as fervent about the other amendments.
Owning guns to defend yourself against tyrannical government made sense a hundred years ago .... it wouldn't make a difference in modern times.
Maybe. But, and hear me out, we do not want to make it easy for them when they inevitably come for us.
Well, I don't even own a gun, but I think you underestimate armed resistance
2A proponents suddenly supporting the right to own ICBMs
Right, we need anti-air missiles now! Where do I sign up?
A revolver, shotgun, or other firearms without magazines are fine for most hunting and self-defense cases. I don't have a problem with an 18yo buying one of these on their birthday. I do have major problems with a teen, or anyone really, coming in with zero history of firearm ownership and buying 1000 rounds and a semi-auto, high-powered weapon.
I'm calling BS on most of these numbers.
The top 3 are already wrong so I can only hazard a guess that the rest are also wrong.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/513623/majority-continues-favor-stricter-gun-laws.aspx
I'm not even going to bother looking at the rest because the top 3 were already wrong.
The graphic is either poorly researched or intentionally misleading and either way I don't care for it.
I checked the first three and they all seemed the same or higher.
69 vs 85% for abortion according to your first link. Although clearly the number is from another source with different phrasing.
72 vs 68% according to your second source
And here's a source for 90% on #3 - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/90-percent-want-background-checks/
Anyway, I hate info graphics, too, but these hardly seem wrong or misleading.
It's a big stretch to say "wants more gun control laws" entirely based on support for background checks. Technically accurate but misleading.
It's not a big stretch, it's a tiny stretch. There are not going to be more background checks if there are not laws in place.
Obviously, but the phrasing implies general support for gun control laws overall, and that isn't close to what the survey was about. You can't just launder the fact of support for the most popular one into support for the whole class of laws if that one is an outlier.
Medicare for all 55% is just the saddest stat have seen in a while.
Probably poor branding, after years of being called a scam. Kind of like Obamacare v. ACA.
Surely the problem with all the other third parties is that they didn't try to appeal to the majority of people.
My question is: what percentage support all of those? The curse of dimensionality applies here because of the large number of features.
Since most are >50% and many are >75%, the crossover is probably large enough that it won’t make a difference
Intuitively it would seem like that, but that’s why the curse of dimensionality is a mathematical paradox: its results are not intuitive!
Yep. Even the gun control issue, which is the most conflicted on this thread, isn't a binary. What gun control? Background checks? Magazine restrictions? Firing mode restrictions? Barrel length restrictions? Round size/energy restrictions? Education, training, and/or storage requirements?
90% of people may agree that we need something, but they likely won't agree on what.
Sure sure, if only 40% of us could be arsed to vote.
An appeal to majority isn't going to sway anyone on either side of the issue because it rings false to those opposed and lacks actual reason to those who support, this is the kind of messaging that will sink a campaign
I mean, "We're starting a new party! The Infograph Party!" was a loser to begin with. But coming straight out of the gate with "You're already a member, you just don't know it yet" naive dogmatism certainly isn't helping.
Only 55% approves of medicare for all? What is wrong with you guys?
Most think about how they can’t afford a 2% increase in their taxes and forget about the $500 per month premium they won’t have to pay anymore
Which is exactly how right-wing media has spun it.
Americans have been conditioned to have such a knee-jerk reaction to "taxes" that we can't comprehend the increase in taxes for M4A < the current cost we pay in premiums + copays + deductibles + coinsurance + HSA etc.
Persistent, heavy propaganda has convinced many Americans that Medicare is somehow worse than their current insurance coverage. It’s quite insane but that’s why this number is so low.
To put a fine point on it: the common lie in the media is that Medicare for all means you lose your current insurance. This is true, and it would be replaced by the much better and more affordable Medicare, but they never say this last part.
Nope.
So, the same people who couldn't get past the DNC to get Bernie nominated think they can create a viable 3rd Party in under 24 months?
Stop dreaming of pie in the sky and start worrying about the Dem. Congressional primaries
Ah yes, the Dem primaries. If we’re lucky enough to be allowed a vote, millions in corporate PAC money will be spent on the establishment incumbent. No thanks, Dems are corrupt beyond redemption.
You got an actual plan? You got a billion dollars to get this Party up and running?
It's easy to spout off about how bad things are, let's hear a solution.
I donated to Bernie in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I'd kind of like to win once.
Let me see your plan.
Why did Americans bother putting in first past the post if they were gonna be too dumb to understand it?
it only took 3 bullet points to find out just how bs this list is
I feel like there's a lot off on this one.
If they count neutral or no-votes, this might be true.
If this is the real feel of the country, I believe we would've voted as such.
Na, it's real...
The thing is, most voters are low information voters. There are a hell of a lot of reliable republican voters who oppose the majority of their agenda, even before project2025...
Should call it the 66% party and only support things that 2/3rds of the public support.
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