CATO At Liberty: Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have, 58% Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
The Cato 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey, a new national poll of 2,300 U.S. adults, finds that 71% Americans believe that political correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal—58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs.
Democrats are unique, however, in that a slim majority (53%) do not feel the need to self-censor. Conversely, strong majorities of Republicans (73%) and independents (58%) say they keep some political beliefs to themselves.
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WNU Editor: One only needs to look at the U.S. Presidential election last year, and remember how the entire political pundit class and the main stream media believed in the polls that Hillary Clinton would win by a massive landslide .... a point of view that was further confirmed within their own echo chamber where everyone was saying the same thing while the few dissenting points of view were laughed at and ignored. So hence the shock among the media and the political elites that their view of the world was not shared by many Americans, and even more bewilderment that so many of these "deplorables" kept their views to themselves. As to the above CATO poll .... I am willing to bet that the 58% who are afraid to share their views are mostly conservatives .... and I am also willing to bet that this number is not factored into how polls are being done today. To put it bluntly .... President Trump's support is probably 15% - 20% higher than what the polls are saying today.
The U.S. is also not the only country that is experiencing this phenomenon of having a significant percentage of it's population keeping their point of view to themselves. The landslide re-election of Japanese Prime Minister Abe two weeks shocked many because the polls revealed him to be the most unpopular political leader in Japan in years .... so how did he and his coalition partners get 65% of the vote? He won for the same reason on why President Trump won. Japanese Prime Minister Abe's views on the military/foreign policy/government budgets/etc. are despised by many in the media and the political pundit class, and this criticism refrains many from the public to admit that they agree with his views. But come election time .... as we witnessed in both the U.S. and Japan .... they have made their point of view crystal clear .... and this is driving many (primarily in the media) stir crazy.
