Back to episode — Episode 1296 Scott Adams - Democrats Fall for Massive Disinformation Campaign From Their Own Side
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So next topic, I guess Joe Biden's presidential approval is up. The weekly variations probably are not terribly telling, but it's up now. I think that Biden has learned that just staying out of the news himself, it just really works for him. So maybe just staying out of the news will just keep working. We'll see. Now Rasmussen also did a poll and found out that most voters now believe China is an…
← Previous segment →platform that is watched or at least it was watched by the White House and other people. I don't know if anybody in the Biden administration is tuning in. I haven't heard that, so I don't know that they are. But I'll just put it out there. I'm not going to take any credit for anything. But I don't know. There are too many people who pushed harder to make China look like what they really are, an enemy to the United States. So I will take some credit for having been on the right side. And I'll take some credit for having done my best to move the needle. And the needle moved. But that doesn't mean I can take credit for it obviously. A lot of people. A lot of people. You know, Gordon Chang. You can name lots of other names who have been pushing against China. So it was a group effort.
This is a perfect example, I would say, of this interplay between government and people. Somebody in the comments says you moved me. So there was somebody who was persuaded there. So we don't know how many, but somebody was.
So let's see. That's enough about China. So there was a survey about what was of most concern to the GOP versus what is most concerning to the Democrats. I'll just read you the top things on the list. So GOP was most concerned about illegal immigration, police support, higher taxes, and liberal media bias. So those were top concerns. Weirdly, the coronavirus doesn't seem to be on either team's top concerns. Jack Posobiec pointed that out. How could neither the Democrats nor the Republicans put coronavirus in their top four? I guess everybody thinks it's kind of solved. We just have to wait it out. So and that would be fair. I'm not sure I would have put coronavirus at the top because I also think it's solved. I just think it's a waiting game now. We don't have to wonder if we'll beat it. We're going to beat it, right? So this is a given now.
But here's what the Democrats had as their top concerns. Now I'm going to remind you again: the GOP — illegal immigration, police support, high taxes, and media bias. Hold those in your head and now see if you can find a pattern. What the Democrats are most concerned about are Trump supporters, white nationalism, systemic racism, and gun violence. What do all those things have in common that the GOP does not have in common? Their issues are different. That's interesting.
Somebody says the GOP is more about freedom. No, I don't see that. I don't see that. Yeah, the biggest difference is that the Democrat major concerns are based on media brainwashing and not based on reality. It's just not based on reality. Now are Trump supporters really like the big problem in this country? I don't feel it. It feels like that's just a fake news sort of narrative that just got out of control. Same thing with white nationalism, which is really just another way of saying Trump supporters if you're a Democrat. And again, systemic racism, gun violence — each of these are the biggest issues not because they're not real. Systemic racism is real. And if you're Black, it's a pretty damn big problem. And if you're white and you like fairness or anything else and you like fairness, it's a really big problem. So I'm not going to say systemic racism is small. But the way they talk about it is not about the teachers unions, which is the cause of systemic racism or the biggest perpetuator of it. Because it doesn't give a poor kid of any type a good chance of coming out of it. If you don't fix that, you're not going to fix systemic racism. You're not even going to get close. Education gap has to be closed or forget it. Everything else you do is a waste of time. You got to close the education gap. And for that you need school choice.
But so the Democrat — and even gun violence, I would argue, as big a problem as that is, is limited to certain places, right? In your town, is gun violence the big problem? I mean Chicago definitely. Yeah, Chicago is definitely terrible. But how about your town? Where would you list gun violence on your top priorities? I can't think of any in my town. I can't think of any gun violence in my town the whole time I've lived here. And I would think that a lot of you — I mean most of you know somebody who got killed by a gun. I do know people have been killed by guns, but not lately. So I wouldn't have put it in my top four. But again that I think that depends where you live.
So it's kind of really amazing that the Democrats are actually hallucinating about what's important. They're actually hallucinating. We told you yesterday that something like 44 percent of Democrats believe that over a thousand unarmed Black people are killed by police every year. The real number is 30. So I mean that's just a brainwashing problem, right? You don't go from 30 to a thousand unless somebody's brainwashed you. Because they were — they felt pretty confident about their estimate. Somebody says 27, not 30. But it's in that range.
So Luke Stark on Twitter says you could say the same about Republicans. Meaning the same, meaning that the Republicans are brainwashed to think that their issues are big. "Cetro is illegal immigration and an imaginary problem." Well, if you said how big of a problem is it at the moment, you can make an argument that it's under control. Just today, like literally Wednesday, you could say well today you know there's a problem but it doesn't seem to be ruining the country in some direct way. But the problem with illegal immigration is that it can go from wha
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tever you think is manageable to something that isn't manageable in just a week, right? And then of course how do you ignore the fact, as the comments are saying, that we have 11 million or however many — 25 million, you know, people who are undocumented in this country? That's a big thing now. Whether you call that a problem or not I think does depend on what media you're looking at. But in terms…
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