How do you negotiate with crazy people?

[andrewducker]

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

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I mean, I know a lot of, say, Conservatives in the UK have beliefs I don't agree with.  But the vast majority of them, so far as I can tell, just have different experiences to me, and different opinions about how things should be organised.  They don't believe that the leader of the oppositon is the fucking antichrist, or other things that can be disproved by 30 seconds with Google.

Comments

[asim.livejournal.com]

I list 3 other polls with similar results in a comment here. I assure you others can be found with a brief search in Google, as I did.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced by the methodology of any of those polls either (in fact, one of the was the similar story going round a while ago that I referred to). I'm sure that people who have these beliefs exist, but I sincerely doubt that they're anywhere near the levels indicated by the polls.

And if they are, one of the polls you link to also has 32% of Democrats as 9/11 truthers, and another 19% undecided, so the daftness swings both ways.