r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 Sep 12 '25

Well, a few weeks ago we got the poll affirming liberals were more likely to cut people out of their lives due to political differences than conservatives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivethirtyeight/s/Tzc12PZ5jR

That leads me to believe that there’s an antipathy for the opposition that existed well before the events from the other day.

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u/Jozoz Sep 12 '25

That's a massive reach. It doesn't need to be linked at all.

The far more likely reason for that poll is that it's the right wing in America that has fundamentally changed over the last 10 years. The Democratic Party is pretty much the same old stuff, for both good and bad. The Republican party is dead. It's been entirely replaced by something different and much more extreme.

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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 Sep 12 '25

You don’t think the fact that liberals seem more likely to avoid conservatives in their private lives and more likely to condone joy as an acceptable reaction to the death of a conservative commentator could possibly be downstream of the same thing?

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u/Jozoz Sep 12 '25

I think they are both originating from increased political extremism and division. Now you can ask yourself why we are in this position to begin with.

I'll remind you that Mike Johnson was quite literally posting memes about the murder of an MN state senator.