An unusual Trump poll

I like to play BuzzFeed quizzes from time to time.  I play them for their entertainment factor and the time wasting element.  I tend not to take the results of them seriously.  Whilst I find quizzes fun, and find some interesting to gauge my knowledge, like 'Can you name these middle eastern foods?'  (which I got 7 out of 13 on if you're wondering) and 'Which Sherlock character are you?' (I got Lestrade) the ones I find most interesting are the quizzes that are made up of polls.  These tend to have no right and wrong answer they simply let you vote and you see what others voted for too.

I recently did one of these quizzes, 'Are you actually terrible at making decisions?' the format for which, was a series of questions where you have triangles of three choices and you can only have two of them, so you are asked to pick one to remove.  It's not often these polls actually give me something to stop and think about but the 10th item on this list did.  The statement is, you must eliminate one of these three friendship qualities: being non-judgemental, being fun to be around, or being trustworthy.  The poll stays open so by the time you play it if you choose to the results will have changed.

The results when I played it were: 71% for being non-judgemental with 163K votes, 22% for being fun with 49K votes, and 7% for being trustworthy with 16K votes.  This genuinely surprised me.  Personally I would choose to eliminate the requirement that people are fun to be around in order to ensure they are trustworthy and non-judgemental.  I find it quite surprising that 71% of people are willing to be around others who are judgemental just so they will be fun and trustworthy.  That to me is incredible that almost three quarters of the people who voted are willing to potentially surround themselves with negativity.  71% of people are willing to consciously choose to subject themselves to negativity just to ensure they are with someone is fun and trustworthy.

I stopped and thought about this for some time and tried to comprehend why people would be willing to choose that option and I have a theory.  I don't know if it has any weight but it's a theory nonetheless.  I believe this means the majority of people are afraid of living a boring life, they are consumed with the idea of having as much fun as possible even if that means putting themselves into negative environments to do it.

Of the three qualities that were stated, two are binary, and one is a scale.  The binary options are Non-judgemental and Trustworthy. 

- If you eliminate people who are non-judgemental, then those who are left are those who are judgemental. 

- If you eliminate people who are trustworthy, then those who are left are those who are not trustworthy

- If you eliminate people who are fun to be around, then those who are left are those who are not fun to be around - that doesn't mean they are a nightmare, just means they're not fun.  That's a scale.

So, 71% of people are willing to be around judgemental people who are fun to be around and who are trustworthy - essentially Cady being in with the plastics before she lost their trust in Mean Girls, than be Cady at the end of Mean Girls when she was around friends she trusted, who weren't judgemental, but weren't necessarily fun.

The only thing I can say to that is just like Cady, when you're around judgemental people and you lose their trust your life will be a whole lot worse than if you were around non-judgemental people and lost theirs.  You're essentially choosing between antagonists and pacifists and making the conscious choice to be with antagonists - which I guess in a way pretty much sums up the entire reason Donald Trump was elected, because people who actually like him actually think they can trust him and find it funny that he winds everyone else up, they don't care that he's judgemental and critical of so many people and openly mocks them.