I will never trust another pundit declaring..."The polls say..." This is because a few minutes ago a robot who sounded like the computer from Star Trek just called me and asked a few ridiculous questions that could only lead to a loaded set of answers.
First she let me know that this was a survey that would be used everywhere possible. She didn't mention Mars, but you get the point. Then she proceeded to ask me if I thought the country was going in the wrong direction. I replied yes, naively thinking I would be probed for more substantive reasoning for my decisions. I was so disappointed when the next four questions were asked.
Was I White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or "some other race"? Really?
Was I of any Hispanic or Latin ethnicity?
What age bracket did I fall into (it gave me multiple choices between 18 and 100)?
AND... perhaps the most pertinent
Did I watch / follow college football at all.
That was it, the end of the survey. I'm actually quite embarrassed that this "data" is going to be misconstrued to represent some strange set of facts about how our country is out of control. I do think things are out of hand, but it's because of the current state of craziness the Republicans are perpetrating against the president just because they can. They care more about being the "GOP" than they care about being Americans. It's shameful. Not to mention the people who are unleashing terror against other Americans with shootings and burnings and killings and kidnappings and all other manner of evil. That seems so much more important than football... mortified by the idea that some ad exec somewhere will use my punching numbers to make a broad, ambiguous statement about something trivial and meaningless. Anything to distract the zombies from any level of conscious, sensible thought. And I participated, oh, the irony!
First she let me know that this was a survey that would be used everywhere possible. She didn't mention Mars, but you get the point. Then she proceeded to ask me if I thought the country was going in the wrong direction. I replied yes, naively thinking I would be probed for more substantive reasoning for my decisions. I was so disappointed when the next four questions were asked.
Was I White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or "some other race"? Really?
Was I of any Hispanic or Latin ethnicity?
What age bracket did I fall into (it gave me multiple choices between 18 and 100)?
AND... perhaps the most pertinent
Did I watch / follow college football at all.
That was it, the end of the survey. I'm actually quite embarrassed that this "data" is going to be misconstrued to represent some strange set of facts about how our country is out of control. I do think things are out of hand, but it's because of the current state of craziness the Republicans are perpetrating against the president just because they can. They care more about being the "GOP" than they care about being Americans. It's shameful. Not to mention the people who are unleashing terror against other Americans with shootings and burnings and killings and kidnappings and all other manner of evil. That seems so much more important than football... mortified by the idea that some ad exec somewhere will use my punching numbers to make a broad, ambiguous statement about something trivial and meaningless. Anything to distract the zombies from any level of conscious, sensible thought. And I participated, oh, the irony!
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