I fear too many people think we need a strong leader that shouldn't have to worry about pesky things like democracy, human rights or parliament.

by Jimmy2Blades

40 comments

  2. What’s wrong with this as a poll question? It’s a poll not a referendum.

  4. Looks interesting, comrade. Dictatorship here we come.

  5. Is finding out the number of people among us who could be convinced to follow a dictator not useful information to have? I would guess about 20-ish percent of the general public would agree with that statement.

    Edit: In fact the results of this survey (Channel 4 right?) are out and 52% of people aged 13-27 hit agree. Again, seems like something worth knowing about!

  6. Polls like these are how we picked up the worrying trend of younger people being increasingly more comfortable with authoritarianism.

  7. It’s a boilerplate question in tests to assess political beliefs and personality

  8. Translation: “Would you be happy with a nation leader who behaves like ~~Hitl~~ Trump?”

  9. It’s good to know if there are people who think like that, and if so, roughly how many. To get an idea of that, they have to phrase it in a way that some people will say “yes” to. They can’t just ask “are you a horrible wee fascist? Yes or No”

  10. Years of destroying the educational system to grow a generation capable of thinking this is a good idea

  13. Most people want a strong leader who does what they think is right just have to look at the praise for China during lockdown. Everyone agrees they don’t want a strong leader doing what they don’t want just need to agree on what they should do

  15. Theoretically, yes.

    If you can get a benevolent dictator who can take decisions for the long term good of the country without having to worry about short term popularity, then overall it should be possible for better decisions to be made.

    In practice, there isn’t a single politician or other leader I’d trust to do it.

    So it’s theoretically interesting but practically fucking appalling.

  17. Ah I didn’t get this poll. I got one about child poverty, Scotland bad. And my postcode wasn’t picked either.

    It’ll be interesting to see the results of yours. The numbers from the 18-20something lot were shocking!

  19. I know it’s a poll but just the fact that questions like these are being floated worries me greatly.

  21. I too, would like to have Emperor Palpatine back in charge, comrade!

    /s

  22. The first question may get answered by disenfranchised white middle class boys / men, that then go onto follow Andrew ‘the tit’ Tate

  23. *When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression.*

  24. This is a standard way to measure support for democracy / autocracy. Similar questions have been fielded in thousands of surveys since the mid 1990s in most of the world. The world values surveys for example

  25. While this question will provide some useful insights, it’s worth pointing out that pollsters often ask crazy-sounding or shocking questions like this to get respondents to engage with the poll better. It’s to keep them thinking and not clicking through idly.

  27. Well it has two answers and an “I don’t know”. It’s a valid question. You’re obviously just triggered by it when you could have just given your answer.

  28. Pretty sure this is from the Political Compass website. It has strong questions like that to detect the strength of political opinion on authoritarian/liberal and economic left/right scales.

  29. I mean personally I’d much prefer it is our political class wasn’t bought and sold like cheap loo roll.

  30. “strong leader” like who or what does that language even describe?

    Someone with big arms? or someone who is a rapist like the “strong” president of the USA? Someone who doesn’t take no for an answer, is that “strong”?

  31. When did equality become a bad thing exactly? Oh thats right, when the right wingers decided to start crying about DEI as if it was suddenly an issue despite the last 60 years of progress. Absolute ghouls.

  33. Who doesn’t have nostalgia for the good ol’ days of Charles I?

  35. Who’s poll was it? Suella Braverman? Chinese communist party?

  36. Polls really should include questions like this though, because shoving your head in the sand doesn’t alert you to nasty views people might actually support. You know, like that one.

  39. So they’re looking for a mandate to govern without a mandate?

  40. Gauging demand for Trumpism, and making it super obvious, because inability to be subtle is a cornerstone of Trumpism.

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