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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:51 AM Feb 2017

What percentage of Deplorables would be comfortable living in a dictatorship?

The thread on what would happen if there was definitive proof that Drumpf collaborated with Russia prompted me to start a poll. Sadly, I believe many Deplorables would be comfortable living in a Russia like state. Yes, indeedy. (sic)


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90-100%
0 (0%)
80-89%
0 (0%)
70-79%
1 (50%)
60-69%
0 (0%)
50-59%
0 (0%)
40-49%
1 (50%)
30-39%
0 (0%)
20-29%
0 (0%)
10-19%
0 (0%)
0-9%
0 (0%)
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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
3. I might have to change my vote.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:54 AM
Feb 2017

Most studies suggest that approximately 25% of Americans have authoritarian tendencies.

doc03

(35,364 posts)
4. Lonepirate we read each others mind we both hit the poll the exact same time and
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:56 AM
Feb 2017

made nearly the same post at the same time.

yuiyoshida

(41,861 posts)
5. Most of them would love to scream "Seig Heil!" so proudly!
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:56 AM
Feb 2017



They would hate living in a Russia type state, more so would love to live like Germany during the 1930's when it was the NAZI's that ruled. That's what they want, to be good Nazis!~

oh and thanks for plugging my poll

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
6. There's an issue the Deplorables haven't considered
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:58 AM
Feb 2017

The Deplorables would be perfectly happy in a society where the (insert name of group they are pissed-off about this week) get treated so badly they leave but the "good people" (read: the Deplorables and anyone like them) are left alone.

That's a nice theory but in practice, when shit gets bad in a dictatorship it gets bad for everyone.

Docreed2003

(16,875 posts)
11. The true believers want nothing more than authoritarian rule
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 01:22 AM
Feb 2017

They need a strong man to idolize and worship. Someone who will think for them because they've been indoctrinated to believe that positions of power equal right whenever their team controls the power.

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)
12. I don't think they've thought that far ahead
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 01:25 AM
Feb 2017

My guess is very few of them would like it. Each of them believes the government would do exactly what they want it to do but that's not how dictatorships work. When they don't get overtime anymore, when the bank takes their house and there is nothing they can do about it, when the school their child was going to closes they won't be happy. When a natural disaster happens and no one comes to help they won't be happy. When the rules and regulations they say they hate are gone and they get sick and/or hurt they won't be happy. When the rule of law that has kept them free since they were a gleam in their daddy's eye is gone they won't be happy.

oasis

(49,407 posts)
14. If deplorables can keep their boots on the necks of minorities, A-Okay.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 01:27 AM
Feb 2017
deplorables gotta get something out of the deal.
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