30 percent of Americans say Internet a bad influence on U.S. politics (Carlos Danger strikes again?)

30 percent of Americans say Internet a bad influence on U.S. politics



SAN DIEGO, August 11, 2013 - Is it the Carlos Danger effect?

Americans are growing less enthused about the Internet’s influence on American culture, politics and journalism.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 31% now say the Internet’s impact on American culture overall has been good for the country, down from 37% in a similar April poll. Twenty-nine percent (29%) think the Internet’s impact on American culture has been bad for the nation, while 30% say neither.

Only 32% now think the Internet’s impact on journalism has been good for the nation, also down from April. Twenty-two percent (22%) think its impact on journalism has been bad for the nation, while 35% think it has been neither good nor bad. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.  . . .

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/media-migraine/2013/aug/11/americans-think-internet-bad-influence-politics/#ixzz2bl2dsrcz

     This is kind of a complicated question to get at through polls. Has the Internet made American politics any less of a circus? No. Has it made it more of a circus? Yes, just ask Carlos Danger. However, the mainstream establishment has had a near monopoly as the overwhelmingly powerful gatekeepers of what is considered respectable positions for Americans to have and what can be respectably discussed.

     But now, for example, we see the Internet's impact on the discussion of this mythical public pressure for 'comprehensive immigration reform'-amnesty. We see most political elites on one side, once again ignoring majority voter opinion and just about all big media lobbying in favor of amnesty through editorials and slanted stories. So it has been comical with all of this huge push for amnesty, also including AP and Reuters articles, at the same time seeing average citizen online comments on the topic run so lopsidedly in the other direction, as well as now the new Internet media outlets that inconveniently do not want to see the destruction of Western civilization through a never-ending tsunami of third-word invasion, counting offspring.

     This will probably eventually build into a viable third-party movement, regional successionist parties or a splitting of one of the existing parties, creating an populist party of citizens who do not appreciate having little choice but to vote for those, like McCain and Schumer, who are licking their chops at the demographic erasing of European Americans.