Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes ā€œfrustrating,ā€ system.

Why would people want to live under an authoritarianā€™s thumb? Itā€™s rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityā€”real or perceivedā€”and a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupā€”especially if it is the ā€œrightā€ group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, ā€œHeā€™s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā€

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    That says 0.51% of adults, and under 18 rates are higher.

    1/1200 is 0.83%

    0.32% is close enough for an ā€œaboutā€ on social media, if we add in under 18 it would get closer, but Iā€™m not doing that much math.

    Neither is exactly 1/1200 tho

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      1/1200 is .000833ā€¦ So .08%. Thatā€™s not how the calculations for finding X in Y people work.

      And the source I linked specifically says 1.6 million people in the US aged 13+ identify as trans, which is 0.48% of the 333.3 million people in the US.

      We were both wrong, itā€™s approximately 1 in 208 people. 333,300,000 / 1,600,000 = ~208.