30 percent of GOP voters in recent poll support bombing Aladdin’s fictional homeland
Why do Americans love wars so much? Did the overwhelming deluge of Star Wars marketing induce a sort of Pavlovian conditioning where any word from the movie’s title gets us all jazzed up (we also love stars, just saying), or did we all just watch too many cowboy movies when we were kids? Either way, a sizable portion of the American voting public seems to love the idea of blowing various foreign nations off the map, as long as they don’t have to put themselves in any personal danger in the process. Americans love wars so much that some of us are even okay with the idea of bombing fictional countries, according to the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling, who did some public policy trolling (sorry, couldn’t help it) in a recent survey.
According to the poll, 30 percent of those surveyed said they supported bombing Agrabah, the fictional kingdom that was home to Aladdin, Jasmine, and friends in Disney’s 1992 animated film. Only 13 percent opposed the plan, while 57 percent responded “Not sure.” (“Is that the city from Aladdin? It’s been 20 years since I saw that movie” was not an option.) And lest you think that the question was specifically picking on Republicans, PPP later said on Twitter that 19 percent of Democrats support bombing Agrobah, while 36 percent of them oppose it.