Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "NBC News"
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Bronwyn : It REALLY WAS a “Referendum” on Trumpism. I hope Moore goes to trial, and then we’ll KNOW, won’t we? But, I just don’t like racists, anyway; but I am especially upset by people in power who abuse Christianity, lying to people, and telling them that Jesus doesn’t want Muslims in Congress, for instance. You ASSUME that everyone who is glad to see the back of Moore, feels that way, because of his sexual deviancy. But, the truth is that Trump’s support of Moore did more to convince people of Moore’s probable guilt, than anything else did. But, Moore’s RECORD is APPALLING. No right minded Christian could support a racist. It just doesn’t work like that
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To which the only intelligent reply is to ask both, “What is really going on,” then? And what evidence to you sight that people do not step back and educate themselves? Forgive me for being suspicious, but whenever I hear pejoratives like, “wokism,” and the casual use of terms like, “educate yourselves,” I generally find that the person making such comments is speaking for the far right and is, without exception, anti-education, only ever really meaning that they want people to follow the same conspiracy theorists whilst abandoning everything their education might have taught them about close reading, objective analysis, history, context, facts and science. I do hope you’re not one of those?
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Which leaves us in the uncomfortable position of not being able to wholeheartedly trust any given poll, yet not being able to entirely dismiss their findings. The thing I find most helpful, when I’m at all bothered to know what a poll truly says (which is not often) is to go to the source, find out who did the poll, what the exact grammar of the question was and how it was put to them, and all of that comes after learning what the demographic was and whether they’re a true representation of the target group. There’s a world of difference, for instance between answering a poll privately instead of in front of friends, family or colleagues. There’s a world of difference between whether it was filling in a form or giving verbal answers to a person on the phone, who may or may not have been trained to lead their subject with cunning linguistics, and who may just hang up on people who sound like they’re not going to give them the answers they’re looking for.
However, what’s of genuine use is not so much the findings of the poll, but what it tells you about the concerns of those who conduct them. What is it that they hope to prove and why they want to show it, and when, and in what way, tells you quite a lot about the internal politics of certain groups and gives clues as to what to expect in the near future.
In the same way that Julius Caesar’s memoirs about the Gallic Wars don’t necessarily give a reliable account of the facts, they certainly tell you all you need to know about how propaganda worked in Ancient Rome at the time, what people thought was important and what made them, “look good,” to their audience, making it an invaluable historical document, for those who know how to read it. ✌️
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