In an interview with The Daily Signal podcast host Rob Bluey last week, national pollster Scott Rasmussen described what he called “the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen.” A recent Rasmussen poll asked Americans “to suppose there was an election and it was close, but your candidate lost. And if their campaign team knew they could win by cheating and not get caught, would you want them to do so?”
According to Rasmussen, only 7% of American voters overall said they’d rather cheat to win. But among the group that he calls “the elite,” that number jumped to 35%. Among the “politically obsessed elite” (those who “talk politics daily”), it was a staggering 69%!
So, who are these “elite”?
Rasmussen explains that they are the top 1% of the population. They make more than $150,000 a year. They live in densely populated urban areas. They have not only college but also postgraduate degrees. And large numbers of them “went to one of 12 elite schools.”
He doesn’t name them, but we can hazard a pretty good guess which schools they are.
“The reason I bring that up,” he continues, “is about half the policy positions in government, half the corporate board positions in America, are held by people who went to one of these dozen schools.” And, he says, they also shape “the mainstream media narrative.”
Not only does this group think it’s acceptable to cheat to win an election, but 70% believe there is too much individual freedom in the United States, and an equal number trusts the government — which, of course, they control. “They really believe,” Rasmussen says, “that if they could just make the decisions and get us out of the way, we would be a lot better off.”
What’s going on at our most prestigious and exclusive universities? How have they produced generations of amoral, condescending authoritarians? And how do we put a stop to it?
Those are questions Americans need answers to