Young dummies will save us? — not likely, suggests an opinion poll

© 2021 Peter Free

 

24 May 2021

 

 

Optimism beaten to death

 

A Morning Consult poll — of 1,922 registered US voters, questioned between 14 and 17 May 2021 — found that 32 percent of Americans did not know whom to favor in the latest Israel versus Hamas conflict.

 

The 'don't knows' rose to 38 percent among people aged 18 to 44.

 

 

Put that result in perspective

 

Israel versus Palestine is arguably the longest-lasting, most publicized, one-sided — continually erupting — conflict in the world.

 

And morally speaking, it is equally obviously a battle between reincarnated Nazism, on the Zionist side — and irate, impoverished (often stupidly impulsive), but continually sacrificial resistance against Israeli-advanced Lebensraum, on the other.

 

Not knowing and opinionating about this continual bleeding requires living in a cave behind a giant rock. Arguably without hope of redemption and resurrection.

 

 

Yet, here we are . . .

 

Thirty-eight percent of young and middle-aged American voters have no idea what they should think about this Middle Eastern tumult.

 

That rather remarkable vapidity occurring despite that fact that the US sends billions of dollars worth of (debatably unnecessary) military and financial support Israel's way. See here, by way of minor example.

 

Those billions of dollars are these Don't Know people's money. That being so, even if this group of taxpaying donors wants to parade itself under Amorality's don't-give-a-shit flag.

 

 

The moral? — Prime Minister Netanyahu is correct . . .

 

. . . Americans are (apparently irreparably) easily manipulated.

 

There is nothing overtly respect-worthy about a nation predominantly populated with committed ignoramuses and their deliberately cultivated, non-functioning brains.

 

The United States' future is, more likely than not, bleak.

 

Our national supply of young dummies is not, more likely than not, going to save us.