I am quite pleased that somehow I’ve ended up on Rasmussen Polls call list. I presume it’s because the first time I saw them on the caller ID and picked up with malice in my heart, that marked me as a sucker. Rasmussen, if you’re not familiar with them, are a right-wing polling firm, and their polls are always sly pieces of propaganda, with forced choice answers that are designed to produce “polls” that support the ongoing nazification of our country.

Fooled them: as a diehard, educated, well-off liberal, it has become my mission to screw with their data. The first question is always “Do you feel the country is heading in the right direction, or do you think things have gotten off track?”

Duh.

Yesterday afternoon they called again, and it was clear they had rushed this one out the door in response to the murder of schoolchildren in Minneapolis, because there were several questions about that event in particular and gun control in general. There was the usual “Do you think we need stricter gun control laws, or should we enforce the ones we have now?” which translates into “Should we do something about the only country in the world where this happens, or nah?”

The most insidious question was “Do you think the shooting was due to political influences, or to the shooter’s mental health?”

First of all: both, bitches.

Second of all: His mental health wouldn’t have mattered if we had gun control in this country.

I’ll say that again for the hard-of-thinking: His mental health wouldn’t have mattered if we had gun control in this country.

Naturally, I answered that it was due to political influences — because it was.

So. If you haven’t contacted your congresscritter directly and shoved this in their face, what are you even doing?