{"id":61829,"date":"2015-09-14T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61829"},"modified":"2015-09-14T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:01:13","slug":"poll-13-of-americans-support-a-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61829","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 1\/3 of Americans support a coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most unscientific polls you&#8217;ll ever read about, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2015\/09\/09\/could-coup-happen-in-united-states\/\">YouGov<\/a> asked a bunch of people on the internet if there was a situation in which they would support a coup in the United States. 43% of Republicans, supposedly, said that they would support the military toppling the civilian government, whereas, only 20% of Democrats and 30% of Independents said they would support a military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, you can probably put me in the category of never supporting a coup. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>YouGov&#8217;s latest research shows, however, that officers in the military are held in much greater esteem than their civilian superiors, and that they are widely viewed as having the best interests of the country in mind instead of their own selfish concerns. 70% of Americans believe that military officers generally want what is best for the country. When it comes to Congressmen, however, 71% of Americans believe that they want what is best for themselves, along with 59% for local politicians. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The funny thing is that if we mistrust politicians so much, why aren&#8217;t we electing better people to office instead of sending back the same selfish dorks year-after-year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most unscientific polls you&#8217;ll ever read about, YouGov asked a bunch of &hellip; <a title=\"Poll: 1\/3 of Americans support a coup\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61829\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: 1\/3 of Americans support a coup<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}