Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says. Is it the Trump Effect?

[workinclasszero]

Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says. Is it the Trump Effect?
By Aaron Blake October 15 at 8:30 AM

There was a pretty striking finding in Thursday's Quinnipiac University poll: Fully 46 percent of Republicans — a plurality — said they would support a preemptive strike against North Korea.

That's nearly half of President Trump's party that is ready for war — today — with Kim Jong Un, his nuclear weapons and all. (Forty-one percent said they opposed a preemptive strike.)

It’s no surprise that Republicans are more hawkish on this than Democrats are; that’s generally the case on foreign policy. But basically nobody is talking about the prospect of a strike right now. Even when Trump talks about it, he’s responding to North Korea threatening the United States or its allies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/14/almost-half-of-republicans-want-war-with-north-korea-says-a-new-poll-is-it-the-trump-effect/?utm_term=.9fcbb70aab17

[Turbineguy]

1. That's because

the other half knows where North Korea is located.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. And has some experience directly or indirectly with war, while the other 50%

have the same mindset as hannity and trump, that of a 9 yr old child.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Just like the lead up to the Iraqi invasion. People love the war drums.

I guess the military industrial complex is not satisfied with the $2.4 Trillion they made off the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.

[workinclasszero]

4. "People love the war drums."

This time with nukes and hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Trump's Amerika will be an international pariah as his handler Putin takes over the world.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Like the Bush invasion of Iraq on steroids. Will hurt our standing, but make $Trillions

for the military industrial complex.

[workinclasszero]

9. The bloody MIC is never satisfied is it?

[Chasstev365]

5. Never again ask the question, "How could Hitler have come to power?"

[workinclasszero]

8. Turn on fox 'news' or hate radio

for the answer.

[Chasstev365]

12. Bingo!

[Irish_Dem]

24. We are witnessing one of the most critical periods in American history.

The undermining of American democracy by a hostile foreign government via the installation
of a despotic, divisive, incompetent leader.

[Chasstev365]

25. No Doubt About It!

[Golden Raisin]

34. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

100% correct.

[snowybirdie]

28. 👏

Yup! Scary!

[Iliyah]

7. Since t-rump's illegal voting fraud commission has almost if not

all of the USA's registered voter's information it could be easy for them to weed out the 46% gopers who want to attack NK and them over for the fight. I'm all for that!

[sharedvalues]

10. Fox, Limbaugh propanganda effect

Propanganda works. That's how GOP billionaire donors get voters to vote for their terrible policies.

[tymorial]

11. A third of the country have always been whack jobs and hawks

They want America to rule the world under a Christo-fascist regime. This third makes up the majority of that half referenced in the survey. I am not surprised by this poll. They are the same people who want us to turn the middle East to a parking lot, innocent people and all. They are the ones who still believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They are the people who say they can't possibly be racist because Lincoln was a Republican (ignoring the fact that emancipation didn't mean equality).

They are the representation of 'merica. In America we call them rwnjs but quite frankly there are people like this everywhere. They are trolls conviction even though that conviction is reprehensible and horrible.

[Sunlei]

13. guess Republicans forgot what China said WILL HAPPEN if USA "preemptive" strikes NK.

[highplainsdem]

14. I wonder how many of that 46% don't even know what a "preemptive strike" is.

And many of those who do know what it is are probably completely, blissfully ignorant of the estimates of how many people would die.

[workinclasszero]

15. Until something personally impacts them

Republicans don't give a shit.

[struggle4progress]

16. The 2016D:I:R registered voter breakdown was about 26:35:36 according to Pew:

http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/

So 46% of Rs is about 16% of the electorate

... a 2010 Pew survey 64% approved of Barack’s Obama’s declaration that the US would never use nuclear weapons against a nation that did not have them, but 30% did not want to take that option off the table ...
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/public-opinion-using-nuclear-weapons/

[smirkymonkey]

17. Absolute proof that they are all a bunch of fucking morons.

Do they even know the implications of this? What it would mean and what the fallout would be for the rest of the world?

No, probably not, because they are too stupid to think that far ahead. God, I hate these people!

[bronxiteforever]

18. This is just a symptom of the dumbing down of Americans

Especially right wingers. They know don’t know the history of the Korean War. You folks are right in that they can’t find Korea on the map nor are they aware of the recent Russian/Chinese military maneuvers near Korea. Additionally they are not aware of the proximity of Russia to Korea.

These war mongers can’t do a simple cost/benefit analysis of the cost of war, let alone the moral issues that go along with such a decision.

[Takket]

30. This is where a media that does its job could help

Don't just tell us what drumpf whats to do, EXPLAIN to us what it would mean. Talk to generals and historians and economists about what this war would actually DO to America and the World. If they actually did that, actually gave a viewpoint other than drumpfs, the public would have a chance to have an informed opinion.

[lpbk2713]

19. They have no personal investment.

They know it will be someone else's kids who go off to fight and die. They have the
resources to keep their kids out of it. That is how it has always worked out.

[Trust Buster]

20. Anti-war demonstrations today will make those protests during the Vietnam Nam War look like

Child’s play in comparison. Going to war this divided is insanity.

[TomCADem]

21. No. It's Trump's Key to Success.

Start a way, any war. Then deflect any criticism of him as an attack on the troops in order to quiet dissent.

[Trust Buster]

22. With todays social media, the country will protest a North Koreans War bigly.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

23. Only half?

[bdamomma]

26. these jerks have a death wish????

[kacekwl]

27. Do they think war won't affect them? Do

they not have family or friends in the military ? If there is war with NK it won't stop there. They watch the wars on news and see faceless others involved but of course president moron will protect them. Wake up dummies.

[Takket]

29. Dumbass idiots support a dumbass idiotic strategy. Shocking!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

31. CHeck out Sam Harris's podcast on it...

He interviews the writer who wrote BLACKHAWK DOWN who says there are no good options. Actually the best suggestion Trump's military seems to be following - get China to be the "bad" guy and do the pressuring.

[Rhiannon12866]

32. Isn't it the job of a president to do everything possible to keep us out of war??

That's also why we have diplomats, to solve disputes peaceably. And a war involving the nukes Trump loves wouldn't just kill millions, but decimate the planet...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Then let them enlist

I'm tired of this flock of chicken hawks.