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Sunday, December 11th, 2016

Rachel Maddow: Poll reveals Trump voters live in alternate state of reality

Author:     Egberto Willies
Source:     EW/MSNBC
Publication Date:     December 9, 2016
Link: Rachel Maddow: Poll reveals Trump voters live in alternate state of reality
Stephan:   Rachel Maddow is one of the smarter people on cable news, a former Rhodes Scholar and PhD in political science. She understands data and pays attention to it. In this report she shows one of the major trends going on in American society: the complete disconnect between reality and the Trump voters. A democracy cannot thrive when voter ignorance is this high, and we certainly are not thriving. I'm not even sure after this election whether we can be called a democracy. Fourteen per cent of the American population is illiterate -- 32 million of us -- and 21 per cent of U.S. adults read below a 5th grade level. That is they can almost read the text on a box of cereal. On top of that four in 10 Americans believe God created the world within the last 10,000 years. We are in fact, at least about half of us, a nation of morons.

Rachel Maddow Credit: MSNBC

If anyone ever doubted the degree to which the Trump voter is misinformed, this clip from last night’s Rachel Maddow’s program is eye-opening. It is no longer funny. It presents a danger wherein Trump can manipulate his base to create chaos when he needs a distraction.

Rachel Maddow exposes the Trump voter

Rachel Maddow dissected a PPP poll exclusively pre-released to MSNBC showing the Trump voter as severely detached from reality. Rachel started the segment by pointing out that President Obama’s overall approval rating is at 50%. However, while his favorability with Republicans is 9%, it is only 5% of Trump voters.

Rachel started the segment by pointing out that President Obama’s overall approval rating is at 50%. However, while his favorability with Republicans is 9%, it is only 5% of Trump voters.

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Rachel then pivoted to issue after issue where a large percentage of Trump voters were severely misinformed. They live in […]

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5 Comments

  1. Steven K Hovland on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 6:38 am

    Everyone lives in their own reality bubble. Right now the Democrats are in a severely altered state because they can’t admit they lost because they picked a bad candidate and ran a bad campaign. Rachel Maddow is smart but she is still a tool of the establishment and spouts the party line. I stopped listening to her years ago.

    • Gus diZerega on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 7:54 pm

      Steven-The ignorant and blindly tribal defend their ignorance by saying the same is true for all. You exemplify this. It seems to me a waste of time to carry the conversation further since you do not even address the stupidity and ignorance she reported on.

  2. LJMurphy on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 7:04 am

    I lived for years in the midwest still have relatives and friends there. They are such low information citizens..they believe Russ Limbo. Few are curious about the world outside they spoon feed local Gannett paper, Fox news or right wing radio. They don’t get a national paper, visit websites that have international opinion or listen much beyond their church pastor for moral imput on issues. Yes Maddow lives in her bubble but there is a lot more size to her space and compassion. The Greed factor of this country has destroyed it.

  3. Mark R on Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 8:39 am

    I would rather live in an entirely different reality than either the red unreality or the blue unreality. Unfortunately this means working for change outside the polarity paradigm which is an uphill struggle. Ignorance and propoganda are programmed into our culture through education system, corporatized media, government agendas, false statistics, parents etc. Orwell said:
    “The further society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”