Speaking of global warming, Kevin Drum laments the fact that global warming comes last in the list. Obviously, I agree that this is concerning, although probably not surprising. What got me, though, was that 30% listed global warming as a "top priority" compared to 45% who listed "moral decline".
This is the sort of stuff I simply don't get. For every two Americans seriously concerned about global warming, three of them are worried about moral decline? Crime was mentioned by 46% of respondents. That means that at best, only 2% of people worried about crime enough to have mentioned aren't also worried about moral decline to a similar extent. I say "at best" because the alternative is that there are people in the States who mentioned moral decline without mentioning actual lawbreaking.
2 comments:
The whole moral decline/crime thing depends on how the question was asked/ the options given.
I can say how people could say they worry about moral decline and be thinking about crime- I suspect there is overlapped between those two.
The rest of is pretty unsurprising as people being people tend to worry about themselves and family first, global issues second. It's jsut the way people think.
Oh, get a load oy my terrible typing and grammer in the above. *sigh*
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