Lies have a conservative bias

Feminists in China see lots of censorship thrown in their way. The current little trick they are using is to pair the emojis for rice and bunny. When the words are spoken aloud in Mandarin the pronunciation is “mi tu.”



We’ve heard that truth has a liberal bias. Mark Sumner of Daily Kos says that lies have a conservative bias. He looks at a recent poll about climate change. Recent polling shows that fewer Republicans believe there is a scientific consensus on climate change. Also down is the agreement by GOP respondents that scientists believe global warming is occurring. Yeah, they’re saying we don’t believe climate change is occurring and we believe that scientists don’t believe it either.

Another little bit from the same article: Voters have been asked how they rate the condition of the national economy. From the fall of 2015 through the 2016 election over 40% of GOP respondents consistently said it was very bad, another nearly 40% said it was fairly bad. Practically the day after the election the number saying the economy was very bad dropped by 13% and both continued to fall. Now both the very bad and fairly bad responses are 3% and 6% while the combination of those thinking the economy was fairly good to very good jumped from under 20% before the election to about 90% now.

Across that same time period – fall 2015 to now – the response from Democrats has been pretty consistent, with fairly good ranging from 60% to 52%.

So “facts” depend on a person’s politics (yeah, we knew that).

In another post, polls look at what Millennials think of the nasty guy and the GOP. Over the last 30 months the unfavorable rating of the nasty guy by those age 18-34 has been consistently above 63% and sometimes as high as 78%. Their disapproval for the party has been consistently above 58% and has been as high as 72%. Soon the eligible Millennial voters will outnumber the eligible Baby Boomer voters.