OK, what I’m basically asking is…what percentage of people in this country are crazy?<\/p>\n
And by “crazy” — just so you don’t think I’m using coded language — I mean: what percentage of people in this country still support Trump?<\/p>\n
Toward the end of How I Learned The Facts of Life<\/em>, after I tell you how to get facts, not fakes, from the news, and then I wade into the muck of specific and repulsive fakery — primarily on social media — I offer hope. I get out my little calculator and plug in some factual numbers and here’s what I found:<\/p>\n We are not a bifurcated country. We are at worst quadfurcated.<\/p>\n Since I just read one of those numbers which drive a lot of people into despair and fear — 83% of Republicans still support Trump– I once again got out my little calculator to learn what precisely this number means.<\/p>\n Things have changed, yes, but for the better. We are now, as of Gallup’s May numbers, a quintfurcated country. If that’s a word.<\/p>\n Because, according to Gallup (which leans Republican but I think they’re accurate here), 31 percent of voters are registered as Democrats, 40 percent are independents, and 25 percent are Republicans.<\/p>\n If you multiply 25 percent by that 83 percent of Republicans who still support Trump you get…20.75 percent.<\/p>\n One fifth of this country remains nuts. The rest of us are planning to do something rational about it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, what I’m basically asking is…what percentage of people in this country are crazy? And by “crazy” — just so you don’t think I’m using coded language — I mean: what percentage of people in this country still support Trump? … Continue reading