RiverDog wrote:I just took one of those internet polls after reading a story about riot participants experiencing unexpected consequences of their actions involving their participation in last week's riot at the Capitol:
"Do you personally believe it is fair or unfair for those who were pictured at the storming of the US Capitol to lose their jobs over this incident?"
Totally fair 91%
Somewhat fair 2%
Somewhat unfair 1%
Totally unfair 6%
Other / No opinion 0%
It's not a scientific polling and the responses are likely somewhat skewed, but nevertheless, the results are striking.
c_hawkbob wrote:It's only skewed in that it only polls the people that took the time to read the story. Most of the people that would respond otherwise don't read.
I disagree. There is a certain type of person that accesses articles like the one I read and bothers to take the poll. For one, they have to get their news off the internet. I'm pretty sure that my 82 year old best friend, of whom would have likely responded unfair and who gets his news via a hard copy newspaper, didn't have an opportunity to take the poll. It's not a scientific sampling.
Nevertheless, the since the responses are so overwhelmingly in the totally fair category, I do think it is telling us something, that a large percentage of Americans are unsympathetic to those that lost their jobs over this.