New poll results show 53 percent of those surveyed couldn’t recall struggling harder to make ends meet
A majority of Americans now say the cost of living is the worst they can remember — and most of them blame President Donald Trump for their predicament.
Poll results published Friday by Politico showed 53 percent of those surveyed couldn’t recall struggling harder to make ends meet, up from 46 percent in November.
The poll by Public First also found 46 percent felt Trump was fully or mostly responsible for the state of the economy, unchanged from six months ago.
No, not in all cases. There are two types of people in a cult: the people who make money, and the people who don’t. The former are truly ghastly people who largely do know better, so they’re not actually ignorant. I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about the latter type of cultist: the marks. They are the targets of a massive, concerted information attack designed to make them trust the cult and distrust anyone outside of the cult. They get hit with it from birth, and it molds them into a uniformly manipulable population and it is really really hard to see outside of it when you’re in it. It really is all-encompassing and grand-scale in a way that’s hard to describe if you haven’t seen it.
And it’s very, very important to distinguish between the people who are willfully blind (the money-makers) and those who are blind by design (the marks). As someone who was born and raised a mark, I have seen the difference and I have seen how failing to see the difference actually reinforces the groupthink of the cult. I think if we want to defeat the cult we need to see them clearly, and part of that is understanding why marks behave the way they do. It’s not because they’re evil and it’s not because they’re stupid. Those are thought-terminating cliches.