Memo To Dems: Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Hate Political Correctness

Could it be that we have reached a period of peak political correctness in America and that the left has badly miscalculated the impact of their efforts to censor anybody who they don’t agree with?

Democrats had best pay heed to the potential for blowback at the ballot box if they continue to appease the fanatical elements of their base that are fixated on identity politics, the tearing down of statues, social media purges and banning of songs that they find offensive like the holiday classic “Baby It’s Cold Outside” which the #MeToo banshees claim encourages date rape.

According to a new poll by the ultra-liberal National Public Radio that was just released, a majority of Americans believe that the reign of the thought police and the chilling form of forced diversity that has been imposed upon them has gone too far.

Via The Hill, “Poll: Majority of Americans oppose US becoming more politically correct”:

The majority of Americans oppose making the country more “politically correct” and are “upset” over things people can’t say anymore according to an NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Wednesday.

In the survey, 52 percent of respondents said they were opposed to the country becoming more politically correct and are upset “that there are too many things people cannot say anymore.” The poll did not give a specific definition for being politically correct.

The answers had a large split on party lines with 55 percent of those who identified as Democrats said they favored more political correctness, compared to only 13 percent of Republicans who said the same. Thirty-three percent of independents favored more political correctness.

“If the Democratic Party moves in a direction that is more to its base on this issue, it suggests independents are going to be tested to stay with the Democrats electorally,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Additional details according to NPR, “Warning To Democrats: Most Americans Against U.S. Getting More Politically Correct”:

Fifty-two percent of Americans, including a majority of independents, said they are against the country becoming more politically correct and are upset that there are too many things people can’t say anymore. About a third said they are in favor of the country becoming more politically correct and like when people are being more sensitive in their comments about others.

That’s a big warning sign for Democrats heading into the 2020 primaries when cultural sensitivity has become such a defining issue with the progressive base.

“If the Democratic Party moves in a direction that is more to its base on this issue, it suggests independents are going to be tested to stay with the Democrats electorally,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll.

Another lump of coal in the left’s Christmas stocking? How about the news that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” has never been more popular?

Via The Hollywood Reporter, “Dean Martin’s ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Hits Top 10 On Digital Song Sales Chart”:

Martin’s version of the suddenly much-buzzed-about 1944 song surges by 70 percent in sales.

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has come under fire of late, with some radio stations banning the holiday standard in light of the #MeToo movement and others defending and continuing to play it. Frank Loesser wrote the song in 1944, and its storyline of a male suitor who attempts to dissuade his object of affection from leaving for the chilly outdoors is being newly dissected.

Despite the controversy, or perhaps in part because of attention generated by it, a version of the song hits the top 10 of Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart for the first time. Dean Martin’s take, recorded in 1959, is the chart’s Greatest Gainer, soaring from No. 31 to No. 10 on the Dec. 22-dated list, up 70 percent to 11,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 13, according to Nielsen Music. A week earlier, it returned to the chart with a 257 percent blast to 7,000 sold.

It’s not likely that the Dems will change course though, they have far too much invested in identity politics and Kamala Harris waiting in the wings to turn back now which means that they could be on the receiving end for a clobbering by President Trump in 2020.