cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/54068

Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like “liberal” and “conservative”.

A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as “to the left” or “to the right” of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.

Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
    162·
    2 days ago

    I’m calling BS on most of these numbers.

    The top 3 are already wrong so I can only hazard a guess that the rest are also wrong.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/513623/majority-continues-favor-stricter-gun-laws.aspx

    I’m not even going to bother looking at the rest because the top 3 were already wrong.

    The graphic is either poorly researched or intentionally misleading and either way I don’t care for it.

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
      63·
      2 days ago

      I checked the first three and they all seemed the same or higher.

      69 vs 85% for abortion according to your first link. Although clearly the number is from another source with different phrasing.

      72 vs 68% according to your second source

      And here’s a source for 90% on #3 - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/90-percent-want-background-checks/

      Anyway, I hate info graphics, too, but these hardly seem wrong or misleading.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        32·
        2 days ago

        It’s a big stretch to say “wants more gun control laws” entirely based on support for background checks. Technically accurate but misleading.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s not a stretch at all. That is one form of gun control. The real number must be higher if just that one form is 90%, and there are many more methods and options.

          We won’t agree on where to stop, but almost everyone wants some gun control laws.

        • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 days ago

          https://maps.everytownresearch.org/navigator/states.html?dataset=background_checks&states=NY

          Especially when almost half of US states already require background checks.

          Anyone who has spent any amount of time around firearm owners and those groups of people would laugh in your face if you tried to tell them that 90% of Americans think there should be more gun laws.

          The graphic seems to be cherry picking data to make it seem like the majority of Americans already have progressive ideals so obviously they should just be progressives.

          America is a center right nation. The majority of Americans are somewhere between center and right of center. While many of them might agree with one or two of those things on the image we all know that it’s not gonna be popular across the board.

        • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
          32·
          2 days ago

          It’s not a big stretch, it’s a tiny stretch. There are not going to be more background checks if there are not laws in place.

          • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            2 days ago

            Obviously, but the phrasing implies general support for gun control laws overall, and that isn’t close to what the survey was about. You can’t just launder the fact of support for the most popular one into support for the whole class of laws if that one is an outlier.