Posted on 06/26/2020 10:42:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
To find out how willing liberal Americans are to jettison the country’s cultural identity, I decided to ask what I thought were outlandish questions,' writes the survey author. 'The answers I received amazed me.'
Seventy percent of self-identified “liberals” want to rewrite the U.S. Constitution “to a new American constitution that better reflects our diversity as a people,” according to survey results published in Quillette this week. Seventy-nine percent of self-identified “very liberal” respondents agreed with this suggestion.
Seventy-six and 81 percent of “liberal” and “very liberal” respondents supported the idea to “Rebalance the art shown in museums across the country until an analysis of content shows that it reflects the demography of the population and perspective of Native people and citizens of color.” Seventy-one and 80 percent of these groups, respectively, supported this idea: “Move, after public consultation, to a new American anthem that better reflects our diversity as a people.”
These were the cultural upheavals that received the highest support among the survey’s 16 suggested options, but liberals in the survey also supported many others. The survey was run by Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at Birkbeck College in the University of London, and administered to 870 Americans recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific Academic platforms that researchers frequently use for such surveys.
“In order to find out how willing liberal Americans are to jettison the country’s cultural identity, I decided, on May 7th, to ask what I thought were outlandish questions…” he wrote. “The answers I received amazed me. I then repeated the exercise on June 15th, after the George Floyd killing and subsequent protests to see whether things had gotten even crazier. It turns out they have.”
“Respondents on these platforms lean young, liberal, and white,” Kaufmann noted, but he wanted that, as these groups are the most politically extreme. After getting the survey results, he focused on the 414 respondents who identified themselves as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
He had asked them to disagree or agree with 16 questions that aimed to gauge support for “a radical blow to American cultural nationhood.” Besides the three mentioned above, the next most supported changes were, in order:
First, they came for the Confederate Flag....
Told ya, this was always the ultimate prize.
The libtards’ hard work at infiltrating our public school and universities for several decades is coming to fruition. You sat on your behinds all the while this was happening, happy to leave the education of your kids to these people. Certainly there ARE conservative teachers, but they are mostly harassed and minimized by their respective libtard-led departments.
Oh, by the way, they got your churches, too.
full on Marxist takeover... virtually no resistance. They must be shocked at much ground they have gained in just 90 days. Maybe not, which is why they made their move. We are being totally routed.
Nope. The vast majority of Orthodox Jews are conservative. I only know one guy, in his 70s, who is a diehard dummocrap.
Been saying the same thing now since this all started. Confederate statues is not their cause otherwise if they are offended by monuments because of slavery then why vote for the party which did slavery?
This is not about black lives. They are using blacks just like they have for decades. Once they get what they want which is more akin to Communism then blacks will see the Democrat party as they really are.
Their end goal is to tear down this country then write another Constitution which mirrors South Africa. Hell even Ginsburg a couple of years ago said this and she is on the SCOTUS.!!!
Barr needs to shut the thing down and expose the leaders in this.
A new Constitution written by liberals would be thousands of pages long and enshrine minute controls to try to deal with every possible contingency in detail sort of like the European constitution. Its analogue of the Bill of Rights would specify what people are allowed to do. For now.
Yes, generations now of brainwashing.
For several years now, the most important annual exhibit that comes to our small local art museum has had increasing levels of “diversity” - paintings selected not for beauty or quality, just purely to meet some unstated PC percentage.
All they have to do is incorporate the old Soviet Constitution.
The Marxist controlled teachers unions have done their work well.
how are we to know the make up of illegal trans sexuals in this country, if they do not allow us to ask that on the census?
any representation would be conjecture without documentation.
by television ads and sitcoms, one out of four people are gay. 3 out of four are ethnic minorities and whites are the stupid ones.
Article V ping, but in a negative way. The Left is organizing.
Former Governor Doug Wilder from VA was raising money for a Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg VA but he ran off with the money and donated artifacts.Democrats are all crooks
correction-in a ‘hurry’
Does anyone anywhere in America have any idea how we put a stop to all of this, much less how do we save our American Republic from the marxist Democrat/Left, the racist BLM, the terrorist Antifa, et al.? Much of this damage to our society appears to be irreversible ....
Remember when folks here called any idea of holding a Convention a crazy thought....because the left would subvert/overtake said Convention?
Well, are we going to overrule thier absurd demands?
I’m guessing seeing how willing people were to be locked in the homes because of simple virus told them everything they needed to know. They’ve been waiting for the right moment for decades, but they knew they needed people to have the right mindset to be successful. Seeing millions of people willingly and without complaint kowtow to the dictates of unelected bureaucrats for 4 month and counting let them know the time had come. It’s over folks we are outnumbered, surrounded and fighting a holding action, but there is no cavalry coming to lift the siege. 40+ years of indoctrination of our children from pre school to graduate school, and complete control of all media outlets has borne fruit. If they win everything in November, which is possible, all the Marxist dreams will become law within a year. Think about that for awhile.
I shudder at the thought of a constitution written by young progressive liberals. Little life experience, little historical understanding, anti-capitalism, white guilt.
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