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Contempt For Ordinary Voters Undermines Opposition To Trump
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<blockquote data-quote="Bradskii" data-source="post: 77656922" data-attributes="member: 412388"><p>My opinion is that it's a long opinion piece. Heavy on...opinion. And It seems that if people keep telling lies then somehow it becomes the truth. From the article:</p><p></p><p>'Two dramatic examples of this political disconnect with average citizens are the refusal of urban governments to prosecute violent criminals, <em>which has caused a surge in crime...'</em></p><p></p><p>From here: <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/" target="_blank">What the data says about crime in the U.S.</a></p><p></p><p>'<strong>Americans tend to believe crime is up, even when official data shows it is down.</strong></p><p></p><p>In <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx" target="_blank">23 of 27 Gallup surveys conducted since 1993</a>, at least 60% of <strong>U.S. adults have said there is more crime nationally </strong>than there was the year before, <strong>despite the downward trend</strong> in crime rates during most of that period.</p><p></p><p>The FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate between 1993 and 2022, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-75%), larceny/theft (-54%) and motor vehicle theft (-53%).</p><p></p><p>Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those captured in the FBI data. Per BJS, the U.S. violent and property crime rates each fell 71% between 1993 and 2022.</p><p></p><p>While perceptions of rising crime at the national level are common, <strong>fewer Americans believe crime is up in their own communities. </strong>In every Gallup crime survey since the 1990s, <strong>Americans have been much less likely to say crime is up <em>in their area</em> </strong>than to say the same about crime nationally.'</p><p></p><p>The question now becomes, are the people who write these articles really unaware that crime is dropping? Or are they just lying to you? But hey, why let the facts interrupt the rantin' and ravin' anyway. Just carry on regardless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bradskii, post: 77656922, member: 412388"] My opinion is that it's a long opinion piece. Heavy on...opinion. And It seems that if people keep telling lies then somehow it becomes the truth. From the article: 'Two dramatic examples of this political disconnect with average citizens are the refusal of urban governments to prosecute violent criminals, [I]which has caused a surge in crime...'[/I] From here: [URL='https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/']What the data says about crime in the U.S.[/URL] '[B]Americans tend to believe crime is up, even when official data shows it is down.[/B] In [URL='https://news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx']23 of 27 Gallup surveys conducted since 1993[/URL], at least 60% of [B]U.S. adults have said there is more crime nationally [/B]than there was the year before, [B]despite the downward trend[/B] in crime rates during most of that period. The FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate between 1993 and 2022, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-75%), larceny/theft (-54%) and motor vehicle theft (-53%). Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those captured in the FBI data. Per BJS, the U.S. violent and property crime rates each fell 71% between 1993 and 2022. While perceptions of rising crime at the national level are common, [B]fewer Americans believe crime is up in their own communities. [/B]In every Gallup crime survey since the 1990s, [B]Americans have been much less likely to say crime is up [I]in their area[/I] [/B]than to say the same about crime nationally.' The question now becomes, are the people who write these articles really unaware that crime is dropping? Or are they just lying to you? But hey, why let the facts interrupt the rantin' and ravin' anyway. Just carry on regardless. [/QUOTE]
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