{"id":31379,"date":"2017-08-18T06:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31379"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:14:51","slug":"despite-the-media-there-are-still-rational-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31379","title":{"rendered":"Despite The Media, There Are Still Rational Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/08\/17\/npr-poll-62-say-confederate-statues-honoring-leaders-should-remain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> posted an article yesterday about a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a> poll that provides hope among the current chaos. The poll convinces me that many of our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politician\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politician\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">political leaders<\/a> and the mainstream media have totally lost touch with the American public.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Asked, \u201cDo you think statues honoring leaders of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Confederate States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Confederacy<\/a> should remain as a historical symbol,\u201d 62 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Percentage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percentage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">percent<\/a> of those polled said yes, including 44 percent of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Democrats<\/a>, 82 percent of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Republicans<\/a>, and 61 percent of Independents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Asked if they should \u201cbe removed because they are offensive to some people,\u201d only slightly more of the Democrats agreed, at 47 percent. Only six percent of Republicans agreed, and 27 percent of Independents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The poll showed that the issue was divisive among <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Race and ethnicity in the United States Census\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">African American<\/a> respondents \u2014 44 percent believed the statues should remain and 40 percent believed they should be removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The poll showed that white and Latino respondents felt similarly \u2014 67 of white and 65 percent of Latino respondents believed the statues should stay; 25 percent of white and 24 percent of Latino respondents believed they should be removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The poll was taken after the tragedy in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Charlottesville, Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.0299,-78.479&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=38.0299,-78.479 (Charlottesville%2C%20Virginia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Charlottesville<\/a>. Despite the attempt by politicians and the news media to use that event as a springboard for destroying monuments to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"History of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">American history<\/a> and attempting to destroy President Trump, very few Americans were impressed. It is interesting to see that despite the fact that some political figures are screaming to remove our history, most Americans disagree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart posted an article yesterday about a National Public Radio poll that provides hope among the current chaos. The poll convinces me that many of our political leaders and the mainstream media have totally lost touch with the American public. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9452,11006,9199,9178,3357,11013],"class_list":["post-31379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-civil-war","tag-charlottesville","tag-confederate-states-army","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-e-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31380,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379\/revisions\/31380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}