Intellectual Dishonesty

Hillsdale College is a far-right wing institution that performs pseudo surveys like the one shown here.

As with everything we encounter from the ultra conservatives, it involves both lies and oversimplifications.  First of all, who’s stupid enough to believe that “nearly half of younger Americans would prefer living in a socialist country” — regardless of how the word is defined?

For this type of marketing campaign to be effective, it needs to be focused on people so dim or misinformed that they think there is a hard line between capitalism and socialism.  Once one starts to realize that all Americans are the beneficiaries of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of government services, one realizes that the rhetoric here is simply garbage.

Next week it will be: “Do you agree with Biden’s attempts to make gun ownership illegal?”