If being cornered by the masked mob, getting fired for refusing a shot, or the frightening increase in police state tactics of the federal government didn’t convince you that America is headed toward despotism, then maybe this shocking Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll will finally get your attention. And here’s a warning; you’ll want to sit down for this one.
Americans have seen the blood and heard of the atrocities by Hamas butchers. Hell, they even Go-Pro’d and live-streamed their acts of barbarity — gouging out eyes, burning hands, beheading civilians. But notwithstanding Hamas’s own evidence of crimes against humanity, the Harvard Harris Poll shows that a slight majority of 18-24-year-olds and slightly fewer than half 25-34-year-olds think the Jews had it coming to them.
I’m going to pause here while you ingest that last statement.
The poll shows overwhelmingly that Americans support Israel in most age groups, but 51% of the under-educated Quislings, brought up on wokism, moral relativism, and nihilism, believe the terrorist butchery of the “1200 civilians” — non-combatants — “can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.”
This is the same age group that expects the great unwashed to pick up the student loan tab for their mal-education.
For example, this same cohort of dill weeds also believes that Israel runs Gaza, though the 1994 Oslo Accords began the process of giving away this plush land on the Mediterranean that has been turned into a hellscape by “Palestinians.”
The poll shows Grandma and Grandpa have a better idea of what the hell is going on in the world because 68% of them were able to identify Hamas as the rulers of this Thunderdome. Maybe because they’ve seen a few things and have concluded that people do horrible things and that the only constraints on this behavior are morals, religion, and ethics — things not taught in school anymore!
The official spokesmodel for Joe Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, was a little cranky that Phil Wegmann of Real Clear News brought up the poll at yesterday’s presser. Her confused, surly response couldn’t be found in her dumb-answer-playbook so she had to punt.
Twitter/X user Curtis Houck provided a transcript:
Reporter: A new Harvard Harris poll just came out which showed that a slim majority, 51% of 18 to 24-year-olds in the United States, think that the violence in Israel can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians. I know that you’ve been unequivocal in saying that the President is going to denounce anti-Semitism and —
KJP: And he has.
Reporter: “– and he has. Is there anything in particular the administration is planning to do to take this argument to those college students or those younger generations who seem to be open to the idea that there are two sides to this thing?”
KJP: “I — I don’t have anything to — to lay out on any specific conversations or outreach that the President’s going to do to students. As you know, we have an Office of Public Engagement here. We have other offices here at the White House that is constantly engaging with — with communities including the young community. I don’t have any specifics to your question on the President’s schedule to do that.”
She was not pleased.
WATCH: KJP refuses to voice concern that over 50% of Gen Z thinks the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Jews was "justified".@PhilipWegmann: "A new Harvard Harris poll just came out which showed that a slim majority, 51% of 18 to 24-year-olds in the United States, think that the… pic.twitter.com/62NqoLYSYJ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 23, 2023
The White House outreach office was the wrong answer, KJP. How about denouncing it from the podium? She can’t because she doesn’t believe it. What an embarrassment.
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The Free Press ran an excellent essay this week on this schism of worldviews. They relied on the conclusions of Thomas Sowell, who wrote about this in his “A Conflict of Visions,” in which he contrasted those with unconstrained vision versus constrained vision to explain the progressive conservative divide. And here’s how the Free Press put it:
Those with “unconstrained vision” think that humans are malleable and can be perfected. They believe that social ills and evils can be overcome through collective action that encourages humans to behave better. […] We need only to say the right things, enact the right policies, and spend enough money, and we will suffer these social ills no more. This worldview is the foundation of the progressive mindset.
By contrast, those who see the world through a “constrained vision” lens believe that human nature is a universal constant. No amount of social engineering can change the sober reality of human self-interest, or the fact that human empathy and social resources are necessarily scarce.
As we’ve seen in our own lifetimes, when one doesn’t act as the left wishes, they make up rules, regulations, and edicts to require our participation. And if we don’t comply, they use the threat of violence to force us.
And what a frightening warning for America.
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