Three more views from Caprock Canyons State Park

  

Here are three more views of rugged russet rock formations
at Caprock Canyons State Park in north Texas on May 15th.

  

 

You’re welcome to read more about the Caprock Escarpment.

 

 

 

 

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Pollster Scott Rasmussen has gotten some revealing results about what he calls America’s elite 1%, which he defines as people with high incomes, urban residences, and postgraduate degrees. Probably not surprisingly, that group’s attitudes about many things differ a lot from the average attitudes of the population as a whole.

For example, Rasmussen found that within the elite group, 69% of those who talk about politics every day believe “it would be better if only people with college degrees could vote. By comparison, just 15% of all voters hold that view.” Of elites who talk about politics every day, 82% believe that most Americans agree with them on important political issues, whereas among voters in general 49% feel that way. Within that very politically minded elite group, 64% think that most voters are willing to pay at least $250 a year to fight climate change, whereas 72% of the general public aren’t willing to pay more than $100, and many people aren’t willing to pay anything.

“… It starts with a very basic thing: 71% of the politically obsessed elites think most Americans trust the federal government most of the time. That has not been true for 50 years. It’s been a half century since people tended to trust the government that much. Today, only 22% of voters voiced that much trust in government.”

You can learn about many other discrepancies by listening to Rob Bluey’s May 24th interview of Scott Rasmussen or by reading the transcript.

 

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