Something like "they don't have the resources the cops need to stop the crime. So I trust the police but the fact is that crime is basically legal now"

It reminds me of when I got jumped and robbed by three dudes and someone called the cops cuz I was yelling for help. They showed up after the dudes fled and told me that even if they found em the courts would just let em back out on the streets tomorrow anyway. People really think the cops are just held on too tight a leash when really they're lazy

Cops lock innocent people up, while those pesky courts occasionally set them free.

Law and Order reruns probably lol (only half kidding)

Classic latent fascist thinking: "those spineless weak gay bureaucrat pencil pushers are the ones keeping our big beautiful powerful police officers from doing what needs to be done!"

It's kind of like the stab in the back myth on a smaller scale. "The cops could win the war on drugs if the courts weren't working against them"

cops on tv

Death to America

higher education is higher than anything its needed for

With that said I don't believe that so few people wouldn't answer "none" for Large Technology Companies.

"none (volunteered)" so "none" wasn't an option for a response, but was recorded if they said it anyway

it's a poll of about 1000 people and the margin of error is already 4 percentage points, so i think the "none" is a lot more dependent on luck of the draw and getting people who despise that particular institution enough to say "none" even though it wasn't offered as a choice

Small business is one of the primary pillars of the american dream myth. The small business owner is the noble entrepreneur trying to make their way to financial freedom. They are the first ring on the ladder and exceptionalised for it.

And why is it especially so, in America?

Because they are merely the modern descendants of the "civilized" lofty-dofty settler-petty bourgeois, who fights for their 'rightful' proprietary 'freedom', against the Indigenous people, who have not taken advantage of this and thus must be genocided for this 'misuse' of such land.

In essence, they are a classical liberal wet dream come true, in the New World...

No one who thinks small businesses are great has ever worked for a small business owner.

Small business and big business are both awful, just in different ways for workers

When I was a kid a cop pulled my dad over for running a stop sign with me, my mom, and my great aunt in the car. We all concurred that he did in fact stop, he argued with the cop and got a ticket. My dad is white as they come, and any time I bring up interactions with cops he says you can't trust them... Still votes for Trump, and he's a Christian Western chauvinist. There's no accounting for political opinions in America.

I know a lot of people in rural communities absolutely think cops are practically useless, hell we had a case here that a police dept in a small town 10mi north of me got busted for corruption this past year. And everyone pretty much cheered that they got busted because they had really bad rep.

But these people also seem to think big cities are crime ridden hell holes and cops are necessary there.

Same with tech companies, particularly those that have cornered the market in social media like shitbook

but that's what we already have

Well it's a poll of Americans so it's definitely not actual leftists

"How would you rate the cops"

"Oh definitely hate them"

"How confident are you in that assessment"

"Very confident"

Unfortunately there are still small business tyrants around