But he's +42 in Russia !the newest Reuters poll has Trump's approval rating at 34.4%, their lowest yet...
http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/CP3_2/
Donald Trump is More Popular Now, His Approval Rating Crossing A Major Threshold In Multiple Polls
So much winning
Trump has the lowest 6 month rating of any President in 70 years. absolutely brutal...
http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1189a1TrumpatSixMonths.pdf
and he goes to Twitter and states that the latest poll (36%) is nearly 40% (???) and that they were off the most during the election polls. What about the others? What about his beloved Rasmussen who has had him at negative 12% lately? He hailed them when they threw in the poll at 50% a month ago but hasn't said a peep about them since they started in freefall again.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brushes-off-record-low-approval-rating-not-bad-time-184612286.html
Let's be honest with ourselves for a second. The only leaders who don't care about a 36% approval rating are the same leaders who don't care about free and fair elections.
36% is nearly nearly 30%. Boom.
36% seems WAY too high of an approval rating.
I assume that those are the kinds of people who call dinosaurs "Jesus-horses"?
The same survey found that 34% of Americans reject evolution entirely, saying humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
interestingly enough, doesn't 36% track very closely with the percentage of adult humans in the US that believe in Creationism?
hmm, yep
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/10/darwin-day/
What causes willful ignorance?Yup, it's the same crowd. The wilfully ignorant religious extremists.
What causes willful ignorance?
I was looking over Trump's approval ratings, and noticed something interesting about the Rasmussen poll often touted by Trump and conservatives.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
It has the highest approval rating (43%) but also the highest disapproval rating (57%). That's because it appears to be the only one where the two numbers add up to 100%, meaning they evidently do not have an "I don't know/unsure" option, or else they eliminate the unsures from the calculation. This elevates both numbers. Most polls have 4-8% uncertain.
Anyway, the delta between the two is more important than the approval number. Trump averages an abysmal -16%, while Rasmussen shows him at -14%. It seems the red lean of that poll is not as much as it appears because some of the higher approval number is simply because of their binary poll method. It also seems clear that you can't just do a straight average like RCP does. Averaging in that Rasmussen number means you're averaging apples and oranges.
I think you are right about this. We know, for example, that various systems that purport to alter consciousness, religious institutions, monasteries, psychological systems etc. involve practices that aim to dissolve ego. The whole notion of humility, meekness, surrender to the will of God, etc are all about reducing a need for ego control.Ego as a grown up but you have to be raised to be completely self involved and ignore all evidence to the contrary or you'll learn to admit when you are wrong and thus gain the ability to learn.
I think you are right about this. We know, for example, that various systems that purport to alter consciousness, religious institutions, monasteries, psychological systems etc. involve practices that aim to dissolve ego. The whole notion of humility, meekness, surrender to the will of God, etc are all about reducing a need for ego control.
I would say, then, that the source of the problem has long been know, and that the rigorous application of the scientific method, fact verification, and spiritual wisdom, reduction in the need to cling, can lead to increased openness to counter egotistical ideation. Unfortunately both of these will come under attack by those who wish to preserve the dominance of their ego and can themselves become the source of such perversion. We have seen what tobacco industry paid science tells us about how safe cigarettes are and we know what the Spanish Inquisition looked like.
So if you agree that it is the ego that blinds us to things, the next logical question would be, what is ego as we mean it here. I see this as a logical question because saying that ego is at cause offers me no understanding on what to do about it. I think that knowing what ego is holds promise in that direction. I have some theories on it and for which I feel paid rather dearly.
Also note that Rasmussen is of Likely Voters. Who cares about voters 3.5 years before an election? Related: who can honestly pare down to just the correct likely voters this far out from an election? What matters at this point is the approval of all adults.I was looking over Trump's approval ratings, and noticed something interesting about the Rasmussen poll often touted by Trump and conservatives.
What causes willful ignorance?