The US of A is substantially crazy

[shipperx]

From Public Policy Polling:
( http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf )

Polling the percentage of Americans who believe B.S. (That isn't the official title, of course).

* 28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is
conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or
New World Order.

* 5% of respondents believe that Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced in the
Beatles in 1966

* 7% believe that the moon landing was faked

* 13% believe that President Obama is the antichrist {22% of the Republicans polled}
An additional 13% are 'not sure'

* 8% of Democrats and 8% of Republicans polled believe that fluoride is added to the drinking water for 'sinister' reasons.

* 21% believe a UFO crashed in Roswell and the government covered it up.

* 28% believe Sadam Hussein was in on the attacks on 9/11

* 14% believe the CIA distributed crack cocaine in the inner cities in the 1980s

* 20% believe that vaccines cause autism

* 11% believe the U.S. government was behind 9/11

* 14% believe in Bigfoot

* 15% believe the media and/or government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals.



ANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD....

* 4% believe that shape-shifting reptiles have taken human form to minipulate & control our world!!!

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

It's official, we're bat shit insane even though I don't believe any of this.

Well, Bigfoot might exist.

[elisi]

* 15% believe the media and/or government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals.
No, Fox News has copyrighted it. ;)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I could almost believe the crack cocaine thing, if it were the city police instead of the CIA. *snort*

28% of voters believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order

Yes, and they're fundamentalist Christians who believe that all that has to take place in order for Christ to come back. God, I'm so thankful that particular teaching wasn't something I was subjected to in my upbringing. Our particular brand of conservative evangelical (but not quite fundamentalist) Christianity was firmly amillenial. THANK GOD.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/10529223.html

Raleigh, N.C. — A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Not even surprised.

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

And these people are not necessarily stupid or ignorant. I have well-educated, seemingly normal friends who truly believe some of this. And there's no argument that will sway them. People believe what they WANT to believe. They don't bother with facts.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Word. My college graduate sister totally buys the Autism/ vaccine thing. Of course, it's because she has an autistic child and wants simple answers, but still.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I know, it makes you nuts.

And that reminds of me of the last Bill Maher show :



4% believe that shape-shifting reptiles have taken human form to minipulate & control our world!!!

And I'm truly ashamed to admit that Petzi Sis is one of them.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I think my favourite thing about David Icke's shape-shifting lizard idea is that the lizards are said to include the British royal family, the Bush family, the Rothschild family, and... Kris Kristofferson. The man thinks "Me and Bobbie McGee" was written by a lizard.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

4% believe that shape-shifting reptiles have taken human form to minipulate & control our world!!!

Actually, this would explain a lot. *g*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it though. ;)

[silverusagi]

4% believe that shape-shifting reptiles have taken human form to minipulate & control our world

Where does that one even come from?
O_o

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

'V'?

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I almost felt snide and cynical enough to point out that an alarming percentage of Americans also believe in an all-powerful man in a white beard who will take them to his golden streets if they cast out "teh gay."

These terrify me but sadly no longer surprise me...

[typographer.livejournal.com]

I've seen lots of jokes and snarky comments about these results. The first thought I had when looking through them was, "How many of those people who said they believe Paul McCartney died and was replaced actually know who the Beatles were?"

But maybe I've had too many moments the last year or so of fans I hang out with not knowing about almost anything that happened more than ten years ago.