I’m perusing Public Policy Polling’s new data and I wish I could say I couldn’t believe what I saw on page 5, but I’d be lying. 30% of Republicans want to bomb the fictional city of Agrabah from Disney’s Aladdin. 57% aren’t sure if they want to bomb it:

In short, 30% of the GOP wants to bomb this terrorist:

These people want us to start a war they clearly know nothing about because they’re that fucking scared of brown people. Imagine for a moment that Agrabah was a real place with no ISIS presence and nothing but innocent people. 30% of Republicans would’ve just said to bomb it anyway and 57% wouldn’t be sure. They wouldn’t know anything about the politics, the economy, the geography, or even where it is on the planet. But it sounds all Muslim, and that’s good enough to think its hypothetical citizens deserve to die and their infrastructure should be crumbled by our hands (and that we should spend mountains of money that could be spent on building our own infrastructure or on education to do it).

America, a shining light of responsibility. The international “good guy with a gun.” And these rubes wonder why people from other nations don’t like us. You want to know how terrorist groups begin? Often it’s when innocent people are bombed thus creating resentment at America.

I can at least sympathize with the unsures. Maybe they haven’t seen Aladdin and assume Agrabah’s a real country they don’t know about. Ok.

And before any readers jump on our high horses, 19% of Democrats supported bombing Agrabah as well, with 46% unsure:

We asked the Agrabah question to Dem primary voters too. They oppose bombing ‘it’ 36/19, while GOP supports bombing ‘it’ 30/13 — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) December 18, 2015

You want to know the real biggest threat to America? It’s the same biggest threat to humanity: most people have what can only be described as shit for brains and are way more passionate about their opinions than they are about the research they put into those opinions.

And that sword cuts both ways. That’s why things don’t get better. That’s why our leaders are often dumb enough to ignore scientists on scientific matters to indulge their own layman’s opinion. And that’s why the populace doesn’t catch on or hold them accountable. The fact of the matter is there’s a lot of people out there who care way more about cultivating confidence in their opinions than accuracy. And on top of it, they’re afraid to say, “I don’t know.”

In short, this is why we can’t have nice things.