Americans are more afraid of clowns than climate change, terrorism, and ... death
The problem seems to be some people don't recognize a clown when they see one!
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/21/13321536/clown-scare-sightings-2016
We live in scary times.
In 2016, weve seen hundreds of mass shootings. Weve watched the gap between rich and poor Americans widen. Weve witnessed the fulminant rise of Donald Trump, whose nomination left Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein truly afraid for the first time in American politics.
But in the eyes of our citizens, there is a graver threat at hand: clowns.
In a poll we conducted with Morning Consult last week, 42 percent of Americans said they were, in some capacity, afraid of clowns. Among voters ages 18 to 29, nearly one in three admitted to at least a minor case of coulrophobia fear of clowns.