Here is my problem

I am living in a country with more than its fair share of crazy and stupid people.

A poll in Louisiana last week found that 29% of Republicans believe that Barack Obama was more responsible than George Bush for the poor response to hurricane Katrina.

Polls show that 34% of Republicans believe that President Obama is a Muslim – and 43% believe that he was born in another country.

There is another fascinating article in the Washington Post today about what recent polls say Americans believe.

The post is here – and following are some interesting results from a Public Policy Polling release in April this year.

37% believe that global warming is a hoax.

6% believe that Osama bin Laden is still alive.

21% believe that a UFO crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and the US government covered it up.

28% believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order.

13% believe that President Barack Obama is the anti-Christ.

4% believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies.

29% believe that aliens exist.

9% believe the government adds fluoride to our water supply, not for dental health reasons, but for other, more sinister reasons.

 4% believe the moon landing was faked.

15% believe media or the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals.

5% believe that the exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons.


I don’t actually believe that the numbers are all real. I am sure that many people gave the answers they did to deliberately skew the poll. 

This is known is Australia as ‘taking the piss’ - and the pollsters seem to have been had. However, taking this into account - some of the numbers are still really scary and make me worry about my fellow travelers in the mid-west.