Should we really care about the 20 Percenters in polls?

The 20 percenters are, sadly, also allowed to vote. They could easily throw someone who wears Mormon Magic Underwear into the majority.

We must fear the insane minority.

I think it’s a lot more than 20%.

There is sufficient evidence to entertain the hypothesis of visitations by extraterrestrial intelligent life forms, so I object to you grouping them with the birthers.

@Seek_Kolinahr Mormon Magic Underwear. How hilarious. But, K: do you not know you’ll be struck by lightning if you tell people about that? I never know what you’ll come up with next.

I do as they reproduce.

When I first moved to NYC, I was more scared of the ”Five Percenters”, one of whom stopped me on a sidewalk and told me that when “the revolution” came, my ass was going to be first against the wall for being a “half-breed traitor”. EEEK!! I happened to be walking around with my blond then-bf at the time. That might have set the fellow off, whad’ya reckon?

“Twenty percenters,” huh? It has ever been thus. If there were someone on the side of good (once we could agree on that, for starters) who knew how to assuage their fears, and that’s what a lot of the political machine is fueled by, then what would be the problem? It’s just that for whatever reason, fearmongers get more political traction. Why is that?

@Aster

Magic underwear

I wish I could make this stuff up. I’d be on the Bestseller list for sure.

That’s pretty much how Bu$hco conducted themselves during their entire political run, except they decided to not give a shit about a much larger segment of the left.

That and the fact that truth/progress/solutions are almost never found in the majority are my two cents on the issue.

@ETpro, the assertion that almost all “9/11 truthers” also adamently believe the government is helplessly incompetent doesn’t appear to be supported by anything you present and I would venture to guess it’s your own embellishment. Other than being impotent against corporate influence, I seriously doubt that many “truthers” hold such an obviously contradictory position. Again your reliance on such absolutist and superlative language mainly serves to discredit whatever your point is.

And the people at the bottom 20% of the IQ scale are those with profound retardation and cognitive disabilities. Are you saying we should just ignore them?

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it’s ⅔ empty. There’s still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn’t drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner regarding his approval rating.)”
— Stephen Colbert

It seems a bit arrogant to think that your opinion, or mine, or the opinion of anyone, for that matter, is more or less important. I thought that in America all of our opinions were equally important. It’s a shame that everyone can’t be as intelligent as we think we are, and prove it by agreeing with exactly whay we think.
So, to answer the question, yes, we should care about the 20%. If we don’t agree with them then try and change their minds. You might try and find a better tactic for this than implying that they are, um, challenged, let’s say. That may turn them off, just my opinion.