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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Presidential' Lies Split Americans.......CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests.
Overall, 49% say the protesting players are doing the wrong thing to express their political opinion when they kneel during the National Anthem, while 43% say it's the right thing. Those views are sharply divided by race, partisanship and age.
Among whites, 59% say the players are doing the wrong thing while 82% of blacks say it's the right thing to do. Almost 9 in 10 Republicans say it's the wrong thing (87%) while just about three-quarters of Democrats say the opposite (72%). And most younger Americans call it the right thing (56% among those under age 45) while a majority of older Americans say it's wrong (59% among those age 45 or older).
Six in 10 Americans say that Trump did the wrong thing by criticizing those players, however, including 51% of whites, 97% of blacks and majorities of Democrats (86%) and independents (61%). Among Republicans, 23% called it the wrong thing to do, and even 32% of those who think the players are doing the wrong thing disagree with Trump's criticizing them.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/politics/national-anthem-nfl-cnn-poll/index.html
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Fox and Brietbart.
spanone
(135,843 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)you're dumb as posts.
"Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lot of times
I wish I could say I'm not white."
-F. Zappa
pangaia
(24,324 posts)disrupt and confuse Americans.. destroy and semblance of democracy...
NON-LINER WARFARE.
Think Vladislav Surko, Alexander Dugin, Bannon, Putin, et all.
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!
The REAL monsters are Republicans for letting this and everything else happen. They could stop it in a minute.
spanone
(135,843 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)What I mean is that it is much bigger than kneeling, anthem, football. That just came along as another opportunity..
That is just a small part of the intentional disruption of American, and ultimately, western, democracy.. so is trump's non-response to PR, and absolutely everything else he does,
He understands the concept of confusing and disrupting society, it is what he did as a real estate guy, TV show guy and everything else.
So in a sense the kneeling thing is just another 'unimportant' tool for him. He doesn't care what the occasion or event is..
But the real danger comes from his being a part of the Bannon, Surkov, Dugin, Putin stradegery.
THAT is the non-linear warfare.