{"id":3434,"date":"2018-07-02T05:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2018-07-02T05:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:26:59","slug":"narrative-collapse-or-and-now-they-know-that-we-know-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/narrative-collapse-or-and-now-they-know-that-we-know-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNarrative Collapse\u201d or \u201cAnd Now They Know That We Know it Too\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Conservative Treehouse linked<\/a> to the results of the Harvard-Harris monthly poll we find three very encouraging results.\u00a0 Look at the answer percentages on these three questions:<\/p>\n

Do you think current border security is adequate or inadequate? 61% Inadequate<\/strong> \/ 39% Adequate<\/p>\n

Do you support or oppose building a combination of physical and electronic barriers across the U.S.-Mexico border?\u00a0 60% Support<\/strong> \/ 40% Oppose<\/p>\n

Do you think that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, known as ICE, should be disbanded or not?\u00a0\u00a0 31% Disbanded \/ 69% Not Disbanded<\/strong><\/p>\n

And this poll skews to the left with 37% Democrat, 32% Republican and 29% Independent.\u00a0 Look at that number, 60% support building a wall.\u00a0 That represents basically all the Republicans and all the Independents.\u00a0 But if you go to the Harris Poll site and look up Harvard Harris you\u2019ll see this headline:<\/p>\n

\u201cLatest Harvard-Harris Poll Finds More than 6 in 10 Registered Voters Oppose Border Wall Between U.S. and Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the opposite result.\u00a0 How can that be?\u00a0 Well the poll they tout was taken back in April and preceded this one.\u00a0 But wait a minute, you might say, how could 20% of the country change its mind in a month or two?\u00a0 And you would be right.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 The older poll reflects what we\u2019ve been fed from pollsters for the last decade.\u00a0 Americans want more immigration and they love those whacky, fun-loving drug runners from M13.\u00a0 We can\u2019t get enough of their idiosyncratic drive by machine gunning and intimidation of our high school children.\u00a0 What\u2019s not to love?<\/p>\n

So how did the new headline occur?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll find a documented answer that makes sense.\u00a0 I\u2019ll give you my theory.<\/p>\n

The narrative collapsed.<\/p>\n

The people who put out these polls have a pretty wide latitude when it comes to selecting the participants, phrasing the questions and massaging the data they receive.\u00a0 And I think they use this elasticity to produce results like the 99.9% certainty that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m guessing that the difference between the April poll and the June poll was relatively large, not twenty percent but maybe five percent.\u00a0 But my guess is that the real percentages in those two polls were 65% and 70%.\u00a0 But you\u2019d say, wait a minute, that\u2019s impossible.\u00a0 How could a 65% majority for the wall be turned into a 40% minority?\u00a0 That\u2019s a 25% inaccuracy.\u00a0 And why then would they not just adjust the 70% to 45%.\u00a0 My theory is they\u2019ve been maintaining the same narrative that they fabricated to prop up the Obama presidency and they juiced it as hard as they could during the Clinton campaign and they held out hope that the Resistance would bring down Trump\u2019s popularity and allow his presidency to collapse. \u00a0But the numbers keep moving farther and farther in the other direction and now they\u2019re literally afraid of being caught cooking the books and losing their gig.\u00a0 After all, other pollsters are already showing different results on these same poll questions and it must be getting a little thick for our friends at Harris and Gallup.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want to be the ones flapping in the breeze when the next Brexit or Trumpocalypse occurs.\u00a0 It might mean having to get real jobs.\u00a0 So the jig is up and they\u2019ll have to start only slightly slightly tipping the scales, let\u2019s say 5 to 10%.<\/p>\n

And that got me thinking, what would it look like if the narrative collapsed completely?\u00a0 And what would it take to cause that implosion?\u00a0 My guess is that what would cause the implosion would be the success of the Trump Revolution.\u00a0 Specifically, if the Republicans hold onto the House and expand their lead in the Senate and use this majority to provide President Trump with the funds to build the wall and enforce the immigration laws and the country supports this effort by re-electing him convincingly, then all of this would be enough to collapse the Narrative completely.<\/p>\n

So this is the long answer for why those poll answers seem so different from expectations.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a short answer too.\u00a0 A one-word answer.\u00a0 Trump.<\/p>\n

Ever since the primary debates he\u2019s been telling us the Emperor\u2019s New Clothes are fake news.\u00a0 Jeb! told us that illegal immigration was love.\u00a0 Trump told us it was crime.\u00a0 The Media and the pollsters said Trump was part of a small, shrinking, bigoted minority.\u00a0 The election showed that wasn\u2019t so.\u00a0 He keeps hammering away at the lies and evasions.\u00a0 And he\u2019s definitely winning.\u00a0 And they know it.\u00a0 And now they know that we know it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Conservative Treehouse linked to the results of the Harvard-Harris monthly poll we find three very encouraging results.\u00a0 Look at the answer percentages on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237,6],"tags":[1167,1164,139,1166,1165,1143,16],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-trump","tag-and-now-they-know-that-we-know-it-too","tag-build-the-wall","tag-fake-news","tag-narrative-collapse","tag-the-narrative","tag-the-wall","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cNarrative Collapse\u201d or \u201cAnd Now They Know That We Know it Too\u201d - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/narrative-collapse-or-and-now-they-know-that-we-know-it-too\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cNarrative Collapse\u201d or \u201cAnd Now They Know That We Know it Too\u201d - 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