This CNN poll on our new cold war gives me hope for the future
I, for one, am glad we are enemies with Russia again. I grew up during the cold war, and I loved it. The cold war was peace compared to what we have now, and I’ll take it. We couldn’t elected maniacs and jack-asses like Bush and Cheney because we knew that they’d blow up the world. We believed in science. And we had a chip on our shoulder to prove that capitalism wasn’t as heartless and corrupt as Marx, Khrushchev and Castro said it was. Man, those were the days.
For the first time in more than a decade, Americans feel that Russia is a serious threat to the U.S., according to a new national poll. And they really don’t like Vladimir Putin, either.
According to a CNN/ORC International Poll released today, 69% of those surveyed say Russia is a serious threat to the U.S., a 25-point jump since 2012 and the highest number on that question since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
More than seven in 10 say there is no justification for Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and nearly half believe that a new Cold War is likely in the next few years. As for Putin, he saw a 14-point increase in his unfavorable rating, to 68% from 54% just before the Winter Olympics started in Sochi, Russia, last month.
“We couldn’t elected maniacs and jack-asses like Bush and Cheney because we knew that they’d blow up the world.”
Um… didnt “you” elect Reagan? If Khrushchev, or someone like him had been Premier, Im quite sure he WOULD have blown up the world.
We dodged a bullet on that one, but I think my general premise stands.
Also, the difference between Reagan and GWB was that Reagan believed in the rapture, but Bush wanted to hasten it.
So, there are 32% of Americans who view Putin favorably. That is nearly in line with the crazification factor, or the amount of Americans who are teabagging conservatives.
“crazification factor”
lol
I thought the crazification factor was 21% (the number that supported GWB after we knew what a terrible
Presidenthuman he was). Although, there could be 10% that support a return to Soviet-style communism. It could be a weird confluence of both lunatic fringes.The crazification factor had been around that 21% for years. I’m not surprised that it has crept up. There are a large number of personal fortunes dedicated to pushing that number ever upward.
umm. The Cold War also gave us Vietnam.
And like me, you probably can remember some clips from back then which remind me exactly of our media today. There was no real threat back then, but we sure didn’t know it. We thought the end of civilization as we knew it, would occur if we let the North takeover the corrupt south…
That end of civilization as we knew it, did occur. We stopped conscripting.
…and lifted this off Allan Loudell’s blog It dates from December 2013 and puts the crazies down to 8% of the population.
To follow up on kilroy: the Cold War not only gave us Vietnam, but also Korea; Grenada; illegal bombing of Cambodia; Laos; Guatemala; Honduras; Angola; the Berlin crisis; the Bay of Pigs; the Cuban Missile Crisis; crushed revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary; SAVAK that we supported in Iran; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; the military-industrial complex; the CIA; the NSA; San Salvador; Chile; the Army-McCarthy hearings; the Black List; Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships and Double Standards”; George Kennan’s “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”; Mutual Assured Destruction; Star Wars and the militarization of near-Earth space; COINTELPRO . . .
Yep, I’m nostalgic as all hell for it. And I’ll bet that the rest of the world is, too.
I’m just a glass half full kind of guy.