Say No to Sycophantism
Monday, May 15, 2006
Now for the real poll
Conducted by Gallup/USA Today.
Tabular results
Needless to say, this poll contradicts the earlier WaPo poll conducted by our good partisan friend Dick Morin, but the numbers still leave a lot of us thinking whether people in this country take privacy and government accountability seriously enough.
When asked "1. Do you think the Bush administration has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far enough in restricting people’s civil liberties in order to fight terrorism]?", a full 19% said the administration has not gone far enough. As Arlen Specter would say, these guys are "smoking Dutch cleanser". My guess is that this 19% is Bush's core constituency, one that will stand by him like most Germans stood by Hitler as he continued to demolish the fledgling German parliament. I know a lot of you will say that the comparison to Hitler is not fair, and I agree with that, but if that's what it takes for people to realize just what happens when there's a herd mentality going around, then that's what we need to be writing about.
Further poll analysis by Atrios.
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Tabular results
Needless to say, this poll contradicts the earlier WaPo poll conducted by our good partisan friend Dick Morin, but the numbers still leave a lot of us thinking whether people in this country take privacy and government accountability seriously enough.
When asked "1. Do you think the Bush administration has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far enough in restricting people’s civil liberties in order to fight terrorism]?", a full 19% said the administration has not gone far enough. As Arlen Specter would say, these guys are "smoking Dutch cleanser". My guess is that this 19% is Bush's core constituency, one that will stand by him like most Germans stood by Hitler as he continued to demolish the fledgling German parliament. I know a lot of you will say that the comparison to Hitler is not fair, and I agree with that, but if that's what it takes for people to realize just what happens when there's a herd mentality going around, then that's what we need to be writing about.
Further poll analysis by Atrios.
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