This is pretty f--king depressing

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Most Americans want the U.S. to stop letting in Syrian refugees amid fears of terrorist infiltrations after the Paris attacks, siding with Republican presidential candidates, governors, and lawmakers who want to freeze the Obama administration’s resettlement program.
The findings are part of a Bloomberg Politics national poll released Wednesday that also shows the nation divided on whether to send U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State, an idea President Barack Obama opposes, and whether the U.S. government is doing enough to protect the homeland from a comparable attack.








http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-18/bloomberg-poll-most-americans-oppose-syrian-refugee-resettlement

[FLPanhandle]

1. and according to DU mocking them is the right strategy to change minds.

Instead of explaining the vetting process and showing why those fears are ungrounded.

[jonno99]

2. +1 nt

[Buzz Clik]

4. Yes. We should be super kind when speaking of them at DU...

... because so many of them access DU for their political conversations.



Point of the function of DU is to vent ugliness to relieve the possibility of doing so in polite company.

[NobodyHere]

9. Obama has the same mindset as DU unfortunately

[Buzz Clik]

3. 64% of the population is ... well ...

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not properly informed about the extensive screening process that refugees must endure. If they only knew the process, I have no doubt that the number who wish to close our border to Syrian refugees would drop to zero.

[FLPanhandle]

5. Or maybe, just maybe, they don't know the process the refugees go through

Maybe they don't know the US isn't just opening the doors to anyone.

It's easy to call 64% of the population assholes and mock them. It takes a more mature approach to understand their concerns and address those concern rationally.

Sure a certain percentage are Right wing crazies and can't be reasoned with. However, a good percentage needs more than name calling to change their minds.

[Buzz Clik]

8. You have a great point:

It's easy to call 64% of the population assholes and mock them. It takes a more mature approach to understand their concerns and address those concern rationally.

So, why don't you thoroughly document right here at DU everything you outlined. Post it and cross post it in all the appropriate forums so those members of the 64% -- the vast majority of whom avidly read DU -- will be educated.

In the meantime, I will delete the part where I call them "asssholes" so their feelings won't be hurt.

[former9thward]

11. Apparently the FBI is part of the 64%

We have not had relations with Syria for years and the country is in the middle of a chaotic civil war. No way for FBI to properly vet them. They testified that to Congress 9 months ago.

https://homeland.house.gov/press/fbi-warns-intelligence-gap-foreign-fighters-syria-iraq/

[Buzz Clik]

13. not the same problem.

[restorefreedom]

6. sometimes i am sad for my country

like now.

[surrealAmerican]

7. Where's the option ...

... to accept more than the 10,000 already planned?

[EL34x4]

10. Probably somewhere within the 28%

Where else would it be?

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Surprised it's not more: Half of DU is in the first category

We've really hit the chicken switch.