Entry: Poll: Most Americans don't have a clue. Thursday, March 31, 2005



The Associated Press reported last night that most Americans feel no nation should have nuclear weapons, including the United States.

Well, that has to suck for Iran, China, North Korea, France, Great Britain, Russia, etc.  After all, the polls have spoken, so that means they have to get rid of them now.  I'm sure Bush will announce his plan to get rid of our nukes by the end of this week.  Israel will have to give up theirs too, leaving them even more vulnerable in the Middle East.

But seriously folks, what's the point of conducting these polls?  The media take them for face value, as if the standard poll taker knows precisely how dangerous our foreign rivals are.  Even if they did, it will do nothing to change the global political landscape.  Despots don't care about the concerns of the masses; that's what made them despots in the first place. 

This is the continuation of a trend that places public opinion polls over laws, policies, and principles.  Ignore the fact that these questions are often loaded, and are conducted by media groups themselves (this poll was conducted by the AP) for a second.  The media, among others, think public policy should reflect the opinion polls.  Too bad it doesn't work that way.

There is only one true poll, and that's an election.  That's when you actually find out which policies the people support, and which policies they don't support.  Everything else is just a false-face for the true voice of the people.

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